Playacting

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  playacting
       n : the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn: {acting},
            {playing}, {performing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "playacting":
     acting, affectation, appearance, attitudinizing, bluff, bluffing,
     buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating, color, coloring,
     deception, delusion, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling,
     dissimulation, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air,
     false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing,
     fraud, front, gag, gilt, gloss, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum,
     humbug, humbuggery, impersonation, imposture, masquerade,
     meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery,
     ostentation, outward show, overacting, pantomiming, patter,
     performance, performing, personation, playing, portrayal, pose,
     posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, projection,
     representation, seeming, semblance, sham, show, simulacrum,
     simulation, slapstick, speciousness, stage business,
     stage directions, stage presence, stunt, taking a role, varnish,
     window dressing