1) Act 2) Affectation 3) Airs 4) Boasting 5) Facade 6) Feigning 7) Guise 8) Humbuggery 9) Hypocrisy 10) Ostentation 11) Pose 12) Pretence 13) Pretending 14) Pretension 15) Pretext 16) Puton 17) Ruse 18) Sham 1) Charade 2) Deceit 3) Deception 4) Dissembling 5) Dissimulation 6) Fakery 7) False profession 8) False show 9) False show of something 10) Feigning 11) French word used in English 12) Imaginative intellectual play 13) Lip service 14) Make-believe 15) Mask 16) Mere ostentation 17) Pretence 18) Pretending 
• (n.) Alt. of Pretence
[n] - pretending with intention to deceive 2. [n] - imaginative intellectual play 3. [n] - the act of giving a false appearance
pretense, pretension 1. A claim, especially an unsupported one, as to some distinction or accomplishment; pretension. 2. A false claim or profession. 3. A false show of something.
make-believe noun imaginative intellectual playpretence noun the act of giving a false appearance; `his conformity was only pretending`
pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense. · a false show of something: a pretense of friendship. · a piece of make-believe. · the act of pretending or alleging falsely. · a false allegation or justification: He excused himself from the lunch on a pretense of urgent business. · insincere or false ...