Usually means: Acting as if something's true.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word pretending:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretending: Merriam-Webster
  2. pretending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pretending: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pretending, pretending: Wordnik
  5. pretending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pretending: Wiktionary
  7. Pretending, pretending: Dictionary.com
  8. pretending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Pretending (Al Sherman song), Pretending (Eric Clapton song), Pretending (Glee song), Pretending (HIM song), Pretending: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Pretending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pretending: Rhymezone
  12. Pretending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pretending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. pretending: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pretending: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pretending: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretending: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretending: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pretending: Idioms

(Note: See pretend as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pretending)

noun:  The act of imagining; make-believe.

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