Dictionary definition for: Pretence
1. (n) a false or unsupportable quality
2. (n) an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
3. (n) pretending with intention to deceive
4. (n) imaginative intellectual play
5. (n) the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
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