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noun the act of giving a false appearance
noun pretending with intention to deceive
noun imaginative intellectual play
originBorrowed from Middle French pretensse, from Late Latin praetēnsus, past participle of Latin praetendō (“to pretend”), from prae- (“before”) + tendō (“to stretch”); see pretend.
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