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pretense   (TTS Sound)

The noun pretense has 5 senses

• pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning -- (the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending")


• pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling -- (pretending with intention to deceive)


• pretense, pretence, make-believe -- (imaginative intellectual play)


• pretension, pretense, pretence -- (a false or unsupportable quality)


• guise, pretense, pretence, pretext -- (an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them")