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make-believe
DEFINITIONS OF:
make-believe
1
n
imaginative intellectual play
Synonyms:
pretence
,
pretense
Type of:
imagery
,
imagination
,
imaging
,
mental imagery
the ability to form mental images of things or events
n
the enactment of a pretense
Synonyms:
pretend
Type of:
feigning
,
pretence
,
pretending
,
pretense
,
simulation
the act of giving a false appearance
adj
imagined as in a play
“the
make-believe
world of theater”
Synonyms:
pretend
unreal
lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria
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