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pretence
Overview of noun pretence
The noun pretence has 5 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (1) pretension, pretense, pretence -- (a false or unsupportable quality)
2. (1) guise, pretense, pretence, pretext -- (an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them")
3. pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling -- (pretending with intention to deceive)
4. pretense, pretence, make-believe -- (imaginative intellectual play)
5. pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning -- (the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pretence
5 senses of pretence
Sense 1
pretension, pretense, pretence
=> artificiality
=> unnaturalness
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
guise, pretense, pretence, pretext
=> semblance, gloss, color, colour
=> appearance, visual aspect
=> quality
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> falsehood, falsity, untruth
=> statement
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
pretense, pretence, make-believe
=> imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
=> representational process
=> basic cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
=> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> falsification, misrepresentaation
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun pretence
2 of 5 senses of pretence
Sense 3
pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
=> bluff
=> pretext, stalking-horse
=> hypocrisy, lip service
Sense 5
pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
=> appearance, show
=> make-believe, pretend
=> affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness
=> masquerade
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pretence
5 senses of pretence
Sense 1
pretension, pretense, pretence
=> artificiality
Sense 2
guise, pretense, pretence, pretext
=> semblance, gloss, color, colour
Sense 3
pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
=> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
Sense 4
pretense, pretence, make-believe
=> imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
Sense 5
pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
=> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
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Familiarity of noun pretence
pretence used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun pretence
5 senses of pretence
Sense 1
pretension, pretense, pretence
> artificiality
=> staginess, theatricality
=> pretension, pretense, pretence
Sense 2
guise, pretense, pretence, pretext
> semblance, gloss, color, colour
=> color of law, colour of law
=> simulacrum
=> face value
=> guise, pretense, pretence, pretext
=> disguise, camouflage
=> verisimilitude
Sense 3
pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
> misrepresentation, deceit, deception
=> bill of goods
=> humbug, snake oil
=> half-truth
=> facade, window dressing
=> exaggeration, overstatement, magnification
=> snow job
=> pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
=> subterfuge, blind
=> trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
=> fraudulence, duplicity
=> evasion, equivocation
Sense 4
pretense, pretence, make-believe
> imagination, imaging, imagery, mental imagery
=> mind's eye
=> vision
=> picturing, envisioning
=> dream, dreaming
=> chimera, chimaera
=> evocation
=> pretense, pretence, make-believe
Sense 5
pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
> deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation
=> fakery
=> indirection
=> trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
=> duplicity, double-dealing
=> cheat, cheating
=> delusion, illusion, head game
=> pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
=> imposture, impersonation
=> obscurantism
=> bluff, four flush
=> take-in
Meronyms of noun pretence
5 senses of pretence
Holonyms of noun pretence
Grep of noun pretence
false pretence
pretence
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