Definitions for 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")
