Synonyms and related words :
acting, affectation, aping, appearance, attitudinarianism, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing, characterization, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, gilt, gloss, humbug, humbuggery, imitation, impersonation, imposture, incarnation, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, ostentation, outward show, pantomime, pantomiming, peacockery, peacockishness, performance, performing, personation, personification, playacting, playing, portrayal, pose, posture, posturing, pretense, pretension, pretext, representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, speciousness, varnish, window dressing