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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense |
| Synonyms: | deception, disguise, fake, farce, make-believe, mimicry, pageant, pantomime, parody, pretension, pretentiousness, put-on, travesty, trick |
| Main Entry: | make-believe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unreality |
| Synonyms: | charade, disguise, dissimulation, dream, fairy tale, fakery, fantasy, imagination, pageant, playacting, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness, sham |
| Antonyms: | reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | mystery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | puzzle, secret |
| Synonyms: | abstruseness, brainteaser, braintwister, charade, chiller, cliffhanger, closed book, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, difficulty, enigma, grabber, inscrutability, inscrutableness, mindboggler, mystification, occult, oracle, perplexity, poser, problem, puzzlement, question, rebus, riddle, rune, secrecy, sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, sphinx, stickler, stumper, subtlety, teaser, thriller, tough nut to crack, twister, whodunit, why* |
| Antonyms: | known, understanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pageant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spectacle or contest |
| Synonyms: | celebration, charade, display, exhibition, exposition, extravaganza, fair, make-believe, motorcade, parade, pomp, procession, ritual, show, tableau |
| Main Entry: | pretense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | falsehood, affected show; cover |
| Synonyms: | act, acting, affectation, appearance, artifice, charade, claim, cloak, deceit, deception, display, dissimulation, double-dealing, dumb act, evasion, excuse, fabrication, facade, fakery, faking, falsification, feigning, gag, guise, insincerity, invention, make-believe, mask, masquerade, misrepresentation, misstatement, ostentation, posing, posturing, pretentiousness, pretext, routine, ruse, schtick, semblance, sham*, shuffling, simulation, stall, stunt, subterfuge, trickery, veil, veneer, wile |
| Antonyms: | honesty, openness, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | airs, snobbishness |
| Synonyms: | affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pretentiousness, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, vainglory, vanity |
| Antonyms: | honesty, humility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pretension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false claim, assertion of importance |
| Synonyms: | allegation, ambition, ambitiousness, aspiration, assumption, charade, declaration, demand, disguise, maintenance, make-believe, pageant, pretense, pretext, profession, title |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truth |
| Main Entry: | riddle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brain-teaser |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, brain-twister, charade, closed book, complexity, complication, confusion, conundrum, cryptogram, dilemma, distraction, doubt, embarrassment, enigma, entanglement, intricacy, knotty question, labyrinth, maze, mind-boggler, mystery, mystification, perplexity, plight, poser, predicament, problem, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, question, rebus, sixty-four dollar question, stickler, strait, stumper, teaser, tough nut to crack, tough proposition, twister |
| Main Entry: | grandioseness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretentiousness |
| Synonyms: | affectation, big talk, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front, front, grandiosity, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pompousness, pretension, put-on, self-importance, show, showboat, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*, va, vainglory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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