Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00754956-n 'the act of giving a false appearance';

English	pretense ₁ ( ⊳ ) , pretence , pretending ( ⊳ ) , simulation ( ⊳ ) , feigning ( ⊳ )
Indonesian	pura-pura , kepura-puraan
Japanese	見せかけ , 見せ掛 , 見せ掛け

Definitions

English: the act of giving a false appearance
― his conformity was only pretending
Japanese: ふりをする行為
― 彼が従っているのは、単なる見せかけだ

Relations

Hyponym:	affectation appearance make-believe masquerade
Hypernym:	deception
Semantic Field:	act_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.979; Future: 0.002)

SentiWN: △ ▼ (+0.00 -0.12) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.25 -0.50)