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Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- conformity,
- consuetude,
- convention,
- currency,
- custom,
- established way,
- etiquette,
- fashion,
- fashionableness,
- folkway,
- haute couture,
- high fashion,
- manner,
- manners,
- mode,
- modishness,
- mores,
- observance,
- popularity,
- practice,
- praxis,
- prescription,
- prevailing taste,
- prevalence,
- proper thing,
- ritual,
- social convention,
- standard behavior,
- standard usage,
- standing custom,
- stream of fashion,
- style,
- stylishness,
- swim,
- time-honored practice,
- tradition,
- trend,
- usage,
- use,
- vogue,
- voguishness,
- way,
- what is done,
- wont,
- wonting
- vogue
collapse - the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own" related words >
- a la mode,
- acceptance,
- acclaim,
- bon ton,
- celebrity,
- character,
- chic,
- convention,
- craze,
- cry,
- currency,
- custom,
- eclat,
- fad,
- fame,
- famousness,
- fashion,
- fashionableness,
- favor,
- figure,
- furore,
- glory,
- haute couture,
- high fashion,
- in the mode,
- kudos,
- last word,
- latest thing,
- look,
- mode,
- modish,
- name,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- popularity,
- preference,
- prevailing taste,
- prevalence,
- proper thing,
- publicity,
- rage,
- reclame,
- recognition,
- renown,
- report,
- reputation,
- repute,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- stream of fashion,
- style,
- stylish,
- stylishness,
- swim,
- taste,
- the bubble reputation,
- trend,
- voguish
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent character,
- appearances,
- artificiality,
- display,
- exteriors,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- gaudiness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- insincerity,
- mannerism,
- mere externals,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- ostent,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- sham,
- show,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- superficiality,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- unnaturalness,
- vain show
- airs
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- affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" related words >
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs and graces,
- arrogance,
- artificiality,
- clannishness,
- cliquishness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- contumely,
- despite,
- disdain,
- disdainfulness,
- disparagement,
- exclusiveness,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- hauteur,
- highfaluting ways,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- insincerity,
- insult,
- lofty airs,
- mannerism,
- mere show,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretensions,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- ridicule,
- scorn,
- scornfulness,
- sham,
- show,
- side,
- sniffiness,
- snobbishness,
- snootiness,
- snottiness,
- sovereign contempt,
- stylishness,
- superciliousness,
- swank,
- toploftiness,
- unnaturalness,
- vain pretensions,
- vaporing
- chic
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- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress"; "a suit of voguish cut" related words >
- braw,
- classy,
- clothes-conscious,
- clothes-consciousness,
- cosmopolitan,
- coxcombry,
- craze,
- cry,
- dandyism,
- dapper,
- dashing,
- dressed to advantage,
- dressed to kill,
- dressed up,
- elegance,
- elegant,
- en grande tenue,
- endimanche,
- exclusive,
- exquisite,
- fad,
- fashion,
- fashionable,
- foppery,
- foppishness,
- furore,
- genteel,
- good taste,
- gussied up,
- in full dress,
- in full feather,
- in high feather,
- in tails,
- jauntiness,
- jaunty,
- mode,
- modish,
- modishness,
- nattiness,
- natty,
- neat,
- neatness,
- nifty,
- nobby,
- posh,
- rage,
- recherche,
- ritzy,
- sharp,
- sharpness,
- sleek,
- sleekness,
- slicked up,
- smart,
- smartness,
- smug,
- snazzy,
- soigne,
- soignee,
- sophisticated,
- spiffiness,
- spiffy,
- spruce,
- style,
- style-conscious,
- stylish,
- stylishness,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- swish,
- tasteful,
- tastefulness,
- trendy,
- tricksy,
- trig,
- trim,
- trimness,
- vogue,
- well turned-out,
- well-dressed,
- well-groomed,
- with-it
- hypocrisy
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- insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have
- an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction related words >
- Pecksniffery,
- Pharisaism,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- charlatanism,
- charlatanry,
- chicanery,
- craft,
- cunning,
- deceit,
- deceitfulness,
- deception,
- double-dealing,
- duplicity,
- empty gesture,
- facade,
- fakery,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- front,
- furtiveness,
- glibness,
- goody-goodiness,
- guile,
- humbug,
- hypocriticalness,
- image,
- indirection,
- insidiousness,
- insincerity,
- lip service,
- lying,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mendacity,
- mere show,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- pecksniffery,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quackery,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- shiftiness,
- show,
- sneak attack,
- sneakiness,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soft soap,
- stylishness,
- surreptitiousness,
- sweet talk,
- tokenism,
- treacherousness,
- two-facedness,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- underhandedness,
- unnaturalness
- Prospero,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airiness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- cheating,
- color,
- coloring,
- deception,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- facade,
- face,
- fakery,
- faking,
- fallaciousness,
- false air,
- false appearance,
- false front,
- false light,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- idealization,
- illusionism,
- illusionist,
- illusiveness,
- image,
- immateriality,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- magic,
- magic act,
- magic show,
- magician,
- mannerism,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- prestidigitation,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- sleight of hand,
- sorcerer,
- sorcery,
- specious appearance,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- unactuality,
- unnaturalness,
- unreality,
- unsubstantiality,
- varnish,
- window dressing
- currency
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- general acceptance or use; "the currency of ideas"
- the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used
- a current state of general acceptance and use related words >
- PR,
- and pence,
- averageness,
- ballyhoo,
- blurb,
- bon ton,
- bright light,
- cash,
- celebrity,
- circulating medium,
- coin,
- coinage,
- coined liberty,
- cold cash,
- common knowledge,
- commonality,
- commonness,
- commonplaceness,
- cry,
- daylight,
- dollars,
- dough,
- eclat,
- emergency money,
- exposure,
- extensiveness,
- fame,
- famousness,
- fashionableness,
- filthy lucre,
- fractional currency,
- generality,
- glare,
- gold,
- habitualness,
- hard cash,
- hard currency,
- hoopla,
- hue and cry,
- legal tender,
- lettuce,
- limelight,
- lucre,
- mammon,
- managed currency,
- maximum dissemination,
- medium of exchange,
- mintage,
- modishness,
- money,
- necessity money,
- needful,
- normality,
- notoriety,
- ordinariness,
- pelf,
- plug,
- popularity,
- postage currency,
- postal currency,
- pounds,
- press notice,
- prevalence,
- public eye,
- public knowledge,
- public relations,
- public report,
- publicity,
- publicity story,
- publicness,
- puff,
- rampantness,
- reclame,
- reign,
- report,
- rifeness,
- routineness,
- run,
- scrip,
- shillings,
- silver,
- soft currency,
- specie,
- spotlight,
- standardness,
- sterling,
- stylishness,
- sweepingness,
- the almighty dollar,
- the wherewith,
- the wherewithal,
- usualness,
- voguishness,
- widespreadness,
- write-up
- popularity
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- the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after; "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies" related words >
- Amor,
- Christian love,
- Eros,
- Platonic love,
- acceptance,
- acclaim,
- acclamation,
- admiration,
- adoration,
- affection,
- agape,
- applause,
- approval,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- attachment,
- big hand,
- bodily love,
- bon ton,
- brotherly love,
- burst of applause,
- caritas,
- celebrity,
- character,
- charity,
- cheer,
- clap,
- clapping,
- clapping of hands,
- conjugal love,
- currency,
- desire,
- devotion,
- eclat,
- encore,
- esteem,
- faithful love,
- fame,
- famousness,
- fancy,
- fashionableness,
- favor,
- fervor,
- figure,
- flame,
- fondness,
- free love,
- free-lovism,
- glory,
- hand,
- handclap,
- handclapping,
- heart,
- hero worship,
- idolatry,
- idolism,
- idolization,
- kudos,
- lasciviousness,
- libido,
- like,
- liking,
- lionization,
- love,
- lovemaking,
- married love,
- modishness,
- name,
- notoriety,
- notoriousness,
- ovation,
- passion,
- physical love,
- plaudit,
- popular regard,
- prevalence,
- publicity,
- reclame,
- recognition,
- regard,
- renown,
- report,
- reputation,
- repute,
- round of applause,
- sentiment,
- sex,
- sexual love,
- shine,
- spiritual love,
- stylishness,
- tender feeling,
- tender passion,
- the bubble reputation,
- thunder of applause,
- trend,
- trendiness,
- truelove,
- uxoriousness,
- vogue,
- voguishness,
- weakness,
- worship,
- yearning
- prevalence
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- the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "he was surprised by the prevalence of optimism about the future"
- (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population related words >
- abundance,
- acceptance,
- accustomedness,
- affluence,
- ample sufficiency,
- ampleness,
- amplitude,
- ascendancy,
- avalanche,
- averageness,
- bon ton,
- bonanza,
- bountifulness,
- bountiousness,
- bumper crop,
- common occurrence,
- commonality,
- commonness,
- commonplaceness,
- confirmedness,
- control,
- copiousness,
- currency,
- customariness,
- extensiveness,
- extravagance,
- exuberance,
- fashionableness,
- fertility,
- fixedness,
- flood,
- flow,
- foison,
- frequence,
- frequency,
- full measure,
- fullness,
- generality,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great abundance,
- great plenty,
- gush,
- habitualness,
- incidence,
- inveteracy,
- inveterateness,
- landslide,
- lavishness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- lots,
- luxuriance,
- mastery,
- maximum,
- modishness,
- more than enough,
- much,
- myriad,
- myriads,
- normality,
- numerousness,
- oftenness,
- omnipresence,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- ordinariness,
- outpouring,
- overflow,
- pervasiveness,
- plenitude,
- plenteousness,
- plentifulness,
- plenty,
- popularity,
- practice,
- predominance,
- primacy,
- prodigality,
- productiveness,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- quantities,
- rampantness,
- reign,
- relative incidence,
- repleteness,
- repletion,
- rich harvest,
- rich vein,
- richness,
- rifeness,
- riot,
- riotousness,
- routineness,
- rule,
- run,
- scads,
- settledness,
- shower,
- spate,
- standardness,
- stream,
- stylishness,
- substantiality,
- substantialness,
- superabundance,
- sway,
- sweepingness,
- teemingness,
- ubiquity,
- universality,
- usualness,
- voguishness,
- wealth,
- widespreadness,
- wontedness
- insincerity
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- the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical related words >
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- apparent soundness,
- artfulness,
- artificiality,
- cant,
- casuistry,
- circularity,
- craftiness,
- credibility gap,
- crossed fingers,
- deceitfulness,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- emptiness,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- evasive reasoning,
- facade,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- false front,
- false piety,
- false show,
- falseheartedness,
- falseness,
- feigned belief,
- flattering tongue,
- forswearing,
- fraud,
- front,
- goody-goodiness,
- gush,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- intrigue,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- mannerism,
- mealymouthedness,
- mere show,
- misapplication,
- mockery,
- mummery,
- mystification,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- oiliness,
- oversubtlety,
- perjury,
- perversion,
- pharisaicalness,
- pharisaism,
- philosophism,
- pietism,
- pietisticalness,
- piety,
- piousness,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rationalization,
- religionism,
- religiosity,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- self-righteousness,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- slobber,
- smarm,
- snivel,
- snuffle,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- stylishness,
- subtlety,
- that flattering unction,
- tongue in cheek,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unction,
- unctuousness,
- unfrankness,
- unnaturalness,
- unsincereness,
- untruthfulness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning
- Gongorism,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- aroma,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- artificiality,
- attribute,
- badge,
- brand,
- cachet,
- cast,
- character,
- characteristic,
- command of language,
- configuration,
- cut,
- differentia,
- differential,
- distinctive feature,
- earmark,
- eccentricity,
- euphemism,
- euphuism,
- exaggeration,
- expression of ideas,
- facade,
- false front,
- false show,
- fashion,
- feature,
- feeling for words,
- feigned belief,
- figure,
- flavor,
- form of speech,
- front,
- grace of expression,
- grandiloquence,
- gust,
- habit,
- hallmark,
- hyperelegance,
- hypocrisy,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- image,
- impress,
- impression,
- index,
- individualism,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- keynote,
- lineaments,
- literary style,
- lugs,
- manner,
- manner of speaking,
- manneredness,
- mark,
- marking,
- mere show,
- minauderie,
- mode,
- mode of expression,
- mold,
- nature,
- oddness,
- odor,
- overelaboration,
- overelegance,
- overniceness,
- overrefinement,
- particularity,
- peculiar trait,
- peculiarity,
- personal style,
- preciosity,
- preciousness,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- property,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- purism,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- quality,
- queerness,
- quirk,
- rhetoric,
- savor,
- seal,
- sense of language,
- sham,
- shape,
- show,
- singularity,
- smack,
- specialty,
- stamp,
- strain,
- style,
- stylishness,
- stylistic analysis,
- stylistics,
- taint,
- tang,
- taste,
- the grand style,
- the plain style,
- the sublime,
- token,
- trademark,
- trait,
- trick,
- trick of behavior,
- unnaturalness,
- vein,
- way
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- anteriority,
- appearance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blazon,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- bravura,
- brilliancy,
- camouflage,
- cheating,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cover,
- daring,
- dash,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- domino,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facade,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false colors,
- false face,
- false show,
- falsity,
- fanfaronade,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- figure,
- flair,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- head,
- heading,
- histrionics,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- incognito,
- insincerity,
- lap,
- manifestation,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masque,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- mummery,
- obverse,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- parade,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protective coloration,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- representation,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- show,
- showing-off,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- staginess,
- stylishness,
- theatrics,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- vaunt,
- veil,
- visor,
- vizard,
- vizard mask,
- window dressing
- pretense
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- the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending"
- imaginative intellectual play
- pretending with intention to deceive related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- air,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deceit,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- explanation,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fake,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretension,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- rational ground,
- rationale,
- reason,
- reason for,
- reason why,
- refuge,
- representation,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
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- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stated cause,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- the big idea,
- the idea,
- the whatfor,
- the wherefore,
- the why,
- title,
- trick,
- underlying reason,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
- flair
collapse
- a natural talent; "he has a flair for mathematics"; "he has a genius for interior decorating" related words >
- ability,
- ableness,
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- adequacy,
- adroitness,
- an ear for,
- an eye for,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- art,
- artistic skill,
- artistry,
- arty-craftiness,
- bent,
- blazon,
- braininess,
- bravura,
- brightness,
- brilliance,
- brilliancy,
- bump,
- caliber,
- capability,
- capableness,
- capacity,
- capacity for,
- chic,
- clear thinking,
- cleverness,
- competence,
- critical discernment,
- daring,
- dash,
- demonstration,
- dexterity,
- discernment,
- display,
- dower,
- dowry,
- dramatics,
- eclat,
- efficacy,
- efficiency,
- elan,
- elegance,
- endowment,
- equipment,
- esprit,
- etalage,
- exhibition,
- exhibitionism,
- facility,
- faculty,
- false front,
- fanfaronade,
- feel,
- felicity,
- figure,
- fitness,
- flaunt,
- flaunting,
- flourish,
- forte,
- genius,
- genius for,
- gift,
- gift for,
- giftedness,
- gifts,
- glamor,
- head,
- histrionics,
- inclination,
- innate aptitude,
- insight,
- instinct,
- judgment,
- keen-wittedness,
- keenness,
- knack,
- leaning,
- long suit,
- makings,
- manifestation,
- mental alertness,
- mercurial mind,
- metier,
- mind,
- native cleverness,
- natural endowment,
- natural gift,
- nimble mind,
- nimble-wittedness,
- nimbleness,
- nous,
- oomph,
- pageant,
- pageantry,
- panache,
- parade,
- parts,
- penetration,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- perspicacity,
- pizzazz,
- potential,
- power,
- powers,
- proclivity,
- proficiency,
- propensity,
- qualification,
- quick parts,
- quick thinking,
- quick wit,
- quick-wittedness,
- quickness,
- ready wit,
- savvy,
- sham,
- sharp-wittedness,
- sharpness,
- show,
- showing-off,
- skill,
- smartness,
- smarts,
- sparkle,
- speciality,
- spectacle,
- splash,
- splurge,
- sprightly wit,
- staginess,
- strong flair,
- strong point,
- style,
- stylishness,
- sufficiency,
- susceptibility,
- talent,
- talents,
- taste,
- tendency,
- the goods,
- the stuff,
- theatrics,
- turn,
- turn for,
- vaunt,
- verve,
- virtu,
- vitality,
- what it takes
- facade
collapse
- the face or front of a building
- a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- anteriority,
- apology,
- apparent character,
- appearance,
- appearances,
- artificiality,
- attitudinizing,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bold front,
- border,
- brave face,
- brave front,
- cheating,
- circumference,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- cortex,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- covering,
- crust,
- deception,
- delusion,
- device,
- disguise,
- display,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- envelope,
- epidermis,
- excuse,
- exterior,
- exteriors,
- external,
- external appearance,
- externals,
- face,
- facet,
- facia,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- fore,
- forefront,
- foreground,
- forehand,
- foreland,
- forepart,
- forequarter,
- foreside,
- foreword,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- fringe,
- front,
- front elevation,
- front man,
- front matter,
- front page,
- front view,
- frontage,
- frontal,
- frontier,
- frontispiece,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guise,
- handle,
- head,
- heading,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- insincerity,
- integument,
- lame excuse,
- lap,
- lineaments,
- locus standi,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere externals,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- obverse,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- outer face,
- outer layer,
- outer side,
- outer skin,
- outline,
- outside,
- outward appearance,
- outward show,
- periphery,
- playacting,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- preface,
- prefix,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- priority,
- proscenium,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rind,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sham,
- shell,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- skin,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- superficiality,
- superficies,
- superstratum,
- surface,
- surface appearance,
- surface show,
- top,
- trick,
- unnaturalness,
- vain show,
- varnish,
- veil,
- veneer,
- window dressing
- pretension
collapse
- a false or unsupportable quality
- the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" related words >
- Barnumism,
- acting,
- affectation,
- affectedness,
- airs,
- airs and graces,
- alibi,
- ambitions,
- ambitiousness,
- apology,
- appearance,
- appurtenance,
- artificiality,
- aspiration,
- attitudinizing,
- authority,
- bedizenment,
- big talk,
- birthright,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- charade,
- cheating,
- claim,
- cloak,
- color,
- coloring,
- conjugal right,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- deception,
- delusion,
- demand,
- device,
- disguise,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- divine right,
- droit,
- due,
- excuse,
- facade,
- face,
- faculty,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigned belief,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flashiness,
- flatulence,
- flatulency,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- fulsomeness,
- garishness,
- gaudiness,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- grandiloquence,
- grandioseness,
- grandiosity,
- guise,
- handle,
- high-flown diction,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- image,
- imposture,
- inalienable right,
- inflatedness,
- inflation,
- insincerity,
- interest,
- lame excuse,
- lexiphanicism,
- locus standi,
- loftiness,
- lofty affectations,
- luridness,
- magniloquence,
- make-believe,
- mannerism,
- mask,
- masquerade,
- mere rhetoric,
- mere show,
- meretriciousness,
- natural right,
- orotundity,
- ostensible motive,
- ostent,
- ostentation,
- ostentatious complexity,
- ostentatiousness,
- outward show,
- pageant,
- platitudinous ponderosity,
- playacting,
- polysyllabic profundity,
- pomposity,
- pompous prolixity,
- pompousness,
- pontification,
- poor excuse,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- power,
- prerogative,
- prescription,
- presumptive right,
- pretending,
- pretense,
- pretensions,
- pretentiousness,
- pretext,
- proper claim,
- property right,
- prose run mad,
- protestation,
- prunes and prisms,
- public image,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- put-on,
- putting on airs,
- refuge,
- representation,
- rhetoric,
- rhetoricalness,
- right,
- screen,
- seeming,
- semblance,
- sensationalism,
- sententiousness,
- sham,
- show,
- showiness,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- smoke screen,
- speciousness,
- stalking-horse,
- stiltedness,
- stratagem,
- stylishness,
- subterfuge,
- swelling utterance,
- swollen phrase,
- swollenness,
- tall talk,
- title,
- tortuosity,
- tortuousness,
- trick,
- tumidity,
- tumidness,
- turgescence,
- turgidity,
- unnaturalness,
- varnish,
- veil,
- vested interest,
- vested right,
- window dressing
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