playacting (n.)
- acting
- affectation
- appearance
- bluff
- buffoonery
- business
- characterization
- cheating
- color
- coloring
- deception
- delusion
- disguise
- dissembling
- dissimulation
- facade
- face
- fakery
- falsity
- feigning
- feint
- fraud
- front
- gag
- gilt
- gloss
- ham
- hoke
- hokum
- humbug
- impersonation
- imposture
- masquerade
- meretriciousness
- mimesis
- mimicry
- mummery
- ostentation
- overacting
- patter
- performance
- performing
- personation
- playing
- portrayal
- pose
- posing
- posture
- pretense
- pretension
- pretext
- projection
- representation
- semblance
- sham
- show
- simulacrum
- simulation
- slapstick
- speciousness
- stunt
- varnish
