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What does pretense mean?

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The English term 'pretense' has several senses or meanings: 1: a false or unsupportable quality; 2: pretending with intention to deceive; 3: imaginative intellectual play; 4: an artful or simulated semblance; 5: the act of giving a false appearance

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