Definizione monolingua

pretence

pretence (plural pretences)

1. (UK, Canada, Australian): An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 231b.

     That part of education that turned up in the latest phase of our argument, the cross-examination of the empty pretence of wisdom, is none other, we must declare, than the true-blooded kind of sophistry.

Definizione dizionario pretence

finta

finzione

pretesa

pretesto

scusa

simulacro

Altri significati:

pretence (pretense)

(UK, Canada, Australian): An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.

act of pretending or pretension