Antonyms for pretencepre·tence

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1. pretence

   Antonyms:
   verity, reality, truth, simplicity, candor, guilelessness, openness, veritableness, actuality, fact

   Synonyms:
   excuse, pretext, fabrication, simulation, cloak, mask, color, show, garb, plea, assumption, make believe, outside show, pretension

Matched Categories

1. • Artificiality
   • Deception
   • Imagination
   • Misrepresentation
   • Semblance

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pretension, pretense, pretencenoun

   a false or unsupportable quality

   Synonyms:
   largeness, pretending, pretext, simulation, pretense, pretension, feigning, pretentiousness, make-believe, guise, dissembling

2. guise, pretense, pretence, pretextnoun

   an artful or simulated semblance

   "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

   Synonyms:
   pretending, pretext, simulation, pretense, pretension, feigning, guise, make-believe, stalking-horse, dissembling

3. pretense, pretence, feigning, dissemblingnoun

   pretending with intention to deceive

   Synonyms:
   dissimulation, pretending, deceit, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, make-believe, simulation, deception, dissembling

4. pretense, pretence, make-believenoun

   imaginative intellectual play

   Synonyms:
   pretend, pretending, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, make-believe, simulation, dissembling

5. pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigningnoun

   the act of giving a false appearance

   "his conformity was only pretending"

   Synonyms:
   pretending, pretext, pretension, pretense, guise, feigning, computer simulation, make-believe, simulation, model, dissembling

How to use pretence in a sentence?

1. Havelock Ellis:

   Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

2. Robert Frost:

   Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

3. Aleister Crowley:

   The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

4. Havelock Ellis:

   Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

5. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

   This destabilizes European democracies, we need to start the debate about the future of our continent honestly, without the muzzle of' political correctness', without pretence, talking straight.

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