pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning
(noun) the act of giving a false appearance; “his conformity was only pretending”
guise, pretense, pretence, pretext
(noun) an artful or simulated semblance; “under the guise of friendship he betrayed them”
pretension, pretense, pretence
(noun) a false or unsupportable quality
pretense, pretence, make-believe
(noun) imaginative intellectual play
pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling
(noun) pretending with intention to deceive
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pretense (countable and uncountable, plural pretenses) (American spelling)
(US) A false or hypocritical profession
Intention or purpose not real but professed.
An unsupported claim made or implied.
An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
• affectation denotes deception for the sake of escape from punishment or an awkward situation
• false pretense
• fiction
• imitation
• pretext
• sham
• subterfuge
• See also pretext
• Petersen, pre-teens, preteens, terpenes
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*tense", Pre*tence, n. Etym: [LL. praetensus, for L. praetentus, p. p. of praetendere. See Pretend, and cf. Tension.]
1. The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension. Spenser. Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. Evelyn.
2. The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Cæsar's death.
3. That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint. Let not the Trojans, with a feigned pretense Of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince. Dryden.
4. Intention; design. [Obs.] A very pretense and purpose of unkindness. Shak.
Note: See the Note under Offense.
Syn.
– Mask; appearance; color; show; pretext; excuse.
– Pretense, Pretext. A pretense is something held out as real when it is not so, thus falsifying the truth. A pretext is something woven up in order to cover or conceal one's true motives, feelings, or reasons. Pretext is often, but not always, used in a bad sense.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 January 2025
(noun) Eurasian maple tree with pale grey bark that peels in flakes like that of a sycamore tree; leaves with five ovate lobes yellow in autumn
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
