pretense (n.)

• acting
• affectation
• affectedness
• air
• airs
• alibi
• apology
• appearance
• appurtenance
• artificiality
• authority
• birthright
• blind
• bluff
• charade
• cheating
• claim
• cloak
• color
• coloring
• cover
• cover-up
• deceit
• deception
• delusion
• demand
• device
• disguise
• dissembling
• dissimulation
• due
• excuse
• explanation
• facade
• face
• faculty
• fake
• fakery
• falsity
• feigning
• feint
• fraud
• front
• gilt
• gloss
• guise
• handle
• humbug
• hypocrisy
• image
• imposture
• insincerity
• interest
• loftiness
• make-believe
• mannerism
• mask
• masquerade
• meretriciousness
• ostentation
• ostentatiousness
• pageant
• playacting
• pose
• posing
• posture
• power
• prerogative
• prescription
• pretension
• pretentiousness
• pretext
• protestation
• put-on
• rationale
• reason
• refuge
• representation
• right
• screen
• semblance
• sham
• show
• simulacrum
• simulation
• speciousness
• stalking-horse
• stratagem
• stylishness
• subterfuge
• title
• trick
• unnaturalness
• varnish
• veil