Thesaurus: make-believe

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1. n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
2. a. Feigned; insincere.
3. adj. imagined as in a play
4. n. imaginative intellectual play
5. n. the enactment of a pretense
6. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold. Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." G. Eliot.
7. A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a merepretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor.To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
8. j:60/n:40 n. the enactment of a pretense s. imagined as in a play