speciousness
71pretense — Synonyms and 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,… …
72pretension — Synonyms and related words: Barnumism, acting, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ambitions, ambitiousness, apology, appearance, appurtenance, artificiality, aspiration, attitudinizing, authority, bedizenment, big talk,… …
73pretext — Synonyms and related words: acting, affectation, alibi, allege, alternative, appearance, attitudinizing, avow, bluff, bluffing, camouflage, cheating, choice, claim, cloak, color, coloring, cover, cover story, deception, delusion, disguise,… …
74public image — Synonyms and related words: affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apparent character, appearances, artificiality, display, exteriors, external appearance, externals, facade, false front, false show, feigned belief, front, gaudiness,… …
75rationalization — Synonyms and related words: account, adjustment, alienation, apparent soundness, approach, arrangement, attack, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame shifting, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, casuistry, charting, circularity …
76representation — Synonyms and related words: Australian ballot, Hare system, abstract, abstraction, account, acting, affectation, agency, altarpiece, appearance, apprehension, assertion, attitudinizing, aye, badge, ballot, banner, bar, block print, bluff,… …
77seeming — Synonyms and related words: Barmecidal, Barmecide, Prospero, acting, affectation, airiness, airy, alleged, angle, apparent, apparitional, appearance, appearing, aspect, assumed, attitudinizing, autistic, bearing, bluff, bluffing, cheating,… …
78semblance — Synonyms and related words: Prospero, accordance, acting, affectation, affinity, agreement, air, airiness, alibi, alikeness, alliance, analogy, angle, aping, apology, appearance, approach, approximation, aspect, assimilation, atmosphere,… …
79sham — Synonyms and related words: Tartuffery, Tartuffism, act, act a part, acting, adulterated, affect, affectation, affected, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, ape, apocryphal, apology, appearance, artificial, artificiality, assume, assumed …
80show — Synonyms and related words: Grand Guignol, Passion play, Prospero, Tom show, accompany, accord, account for, acting, advertise, affect, affectation, affectedness, afford, afford proof of, air, airiness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, allege,… …
