make-believe

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (childish, sometimes, uncountable) The quality or act of pretending; acting as if something is true when in fact one knows it is not.
2. (childish, sometimes, uncountable) The condition of pretending or imagining that things are better than they really are.
3. (childish, countable, sometimes) Something imaginary.

Adj

Imaginary; not real; pretend.

Concepts

feindre

prétention

faire semblant

invention

feignant

feinte

invention pure

fantaisie

imaginaire

Synonymes

pretend

pretence

sham

pretense

pretended

imaginary

imagination

fancy

inventor

dissimulation

counterfeit

fantasy

feign

imitation

inventive soul

feigning

fiber

fiction

fictitious

fraudulent

game

hypocrisy

illusory

image

likeness

lying

malingering

masquerade

mock

model

notional

phantasy

phony

picture

pictured

play

portrait

pose

put on

romancer

ruse

show

simulation

supposititious

toy

trick

type

unreality

untrue

untruthful

Traductions

finzione

simulado

fantasía

Phantasie

far finta

Vortäuschung

Fälschung

eingebildet

simulació

Nachahmung

Imitation

scheinbar

Schwindel

Täuschung

Betrug

Étymologie (Anglais)

Deverbal from make believe.