PRETENSE
- A claim, esp. a false or ambitious one
- An attempt to make something that is not the case appear true
- A false display of feelings, attitudes, or intentions
- The practice of inventing imaginary situations in play
- the act of pretending (to assume or display a false appearance of) [n PRETENSES]
- Affected and ostentatious speech and behavior
- the act of pretending, also PRETENCE [n -S]