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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pretence has 5 senses
- pretence(n = noun.attribute) pretense, pretension - a false or unsupportable quality; is a kind of artificiality
- pretence(n = noun.attribute) guise, pretense, pretext - an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" is a kind of color, colour, gloss, semblance
- pretence(n = noun.communication) dissembling, feigning, pretense - pretending with intention to deceive; is a kind of deceit, deception, misrepresentation
- pretence(n = noun.cognition) make-believe, pretense - imaginative intellectual play; is a kind of imagery, imagination, imaging, mental imagery
- pretence(n = noun.act) feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation - the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" is a kind of deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation
has particulars: bluff, pretext, stalking-horse, hypocrisy, lip service
has particulars: appearance, show, make-believe, pretend, affectation, affectedness, mannerism, pose, masquerade
CIDE DICTIONARY
pretence, n.
pretence, n. [LL. praetensus, for L. praetentus, p. p. of praetendere. See Pretend, and cf. Tension.].
- The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. [1913 Webster]"Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power." [1913 Webster]"I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford." [1913 Webster]
- The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death. [1913 Webster]
- That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint. [1913 Webster]"Let not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense
Of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince." [1913 Webster] - Intention; design. [1913 Webster]" See the
Note underOffense ." [1913 Webster]"A very pretense and purpose of unkindness." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Mask; appearance; color; show; pretext; excuse.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pretence, n. (US pretense)
1 pretending, make-believe.
2 a a pretext or excuse (on the slightest pretence). b a false show of intentions or motives (under the pretence of friendship; under false pretences).
3 (foll. by to) a claim, esp. a false or ambitious one (has no pretence to any great talent).
4 a affectation, display. b pretentiousness, ostentation (stripped of all pretence).
1 pretending, make-believe.
2 a a pretext or excuse (on the slightest pretence). b a false show of intentions or motives (under the pretence of friendship; under false pretences).
3 (foll. by to) a claim, esp. a false or ambitious one (has no pretence to any great talent).
4 a affectation, display. b pretentiousness, ostentation (stripped of all pretence).
Etymology
ME f. AF pretense ult. f. med.L pretensus pretended (as PRETEND)
THESAURUS
pretence
airs, appearance, artifice, blind, camouflage, cloak, cover, cover-up, deception, disguise, display, dodge, excuse, fable, fabrication, facade, fairy tale, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, fiction, figment, front, guise, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, hypocrisy, impression, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, ostentation, pose, posturing, pretending, pretension, pretentiousness, pretext, ruse, sham, show, story, veil
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