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Meaning of pretense

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  pretense
      n 1: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was
           only pretending" [syn: {pretense}, {pretence},
           {pretending}, {simulation}, {feigning}]
      2: pretending with intention to deceive [syn: {pretense},
         {pretence}, {feigning}, {dissembling}]
      3: imaginative intellectual play [syn: {pretense}, {pretence},
         {make-believe}]
      4: a false or unsupportable quality [syn: {pretension},
         {pretense}, {pretence}]
      5: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of
         friendship he betrayed them" [syn: {guise}, {pretense},
         {pretence}, {pretext}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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