Pretence

Noun

 * : An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
 * 1) * 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 231b.
 * That part of education that turned up in the latest phase of our argument, the cross-examination of the empty pretence of wisdom, is none other, we must declare, than the true-blooded kind of sophistry.

Thesaurus
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

Alternative forms

 * pretense

Etymology
From pretensse, from  prætensus (past participle of prætendere, præ- + tendere).

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