fakeness
Quality of pretense
Fakeness is the quality of being fake—artificial, insincere, or counterfeit.
The word often describes a perceived lack of authenticity in people or things: I couldn't stand the fakeness of her smile.
It implies something pretending to be what it isn't, whether a person's demeanor, a product's claims, or a social situation's forced pleasantries.
Intentional criminal trickery
- hoaxDeliberate deception for effect
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
- conArgument against
- swindleDeception for financial gain
trickery · subterfuge · ruse · bluff · feint · dupery · guile · charlatan
Deceptive outward show
- contrivanceClever invention or scheme
- affectationArtificial behavior for effect
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- charadeAbsurd or obvious pretense
masquerade · facade · guise · illusion · simulation · spectacle · theater · performance
Fraudulent imitation
- knockoffUnauthorized replica product
- replicaFaithful scaled reproduction
- forgeryCreating fraudulent imitations
- copyIdentical reproduction made
reproduction · facsimile · mock-up · simulacrum · duplicate · clone · bootleg · pirated
Quality of being insincere
- disingenuousnessPretended ignorance or naivety
- hypocrisyPretense of virtue
- two-facednessDeceitful pretense of friendship
- duplicityDeliberate misleading behavior
dishonesty · falseness · hollowness · pretentiousness · affectedness · crocodile tears · lip service · empty promises
fraud
Intentional criminal trickery
swindle · trickery · subterfuge · ruse · bluff · feint · dupery · guile · charlatan · impostor
pretense
Deceptive outward show
- contrivanceClever invention or scheme
- affectationArtificial behavior for effect
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
charade · masquerade · facade · guise · illusion · simulation · spectacle · theater · performance · put-on
counterfeit
Fraudulent imitation
- knockoffUnauthorized replica product
- replicaFaithful scaled reproduction
- forgeryCreating fraudulent imitations
copy · reproduction · facsimile · mock-up · simulacrum · duplicate · clone · bootleg · pirated · ersatz
phoniness
Quality of being insincere
- disingenuousnessPretended ignorance or naivety
- hypocrisyPretense of virtue
- two-facednessDeceitful pretense of friendship
duplicity · dishonesty · falseness · hollowness · pretentiousness · affectedness · crocodile tears · lip service · empty promises · backstabbing
- superficialityshallowness, superficiality, hollowness, emptiness, skin deep
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fraud, cheat
- deceptionslie, lies, lying, deceit, decoy
- fakephony, bogus, sham, counterfeit, imitation
- insincerityinsincerity, phoniness, falseness, pretense, dissembling
- unnaturalnessartificiality, affectation, contrivance, falseness, fabrication
fakenessauthenticity
Quality of being genuine
genuineness · realness · legitimacy · originality · validity
fakenesssincerity
Honest, unfeigned genuineness
genuineness · honesty · earnestness · truthfulness · candor
fakenessnaturalness
Unaffected, uncontrived quality
realness · the real thing · true · unadulterated · real
fake, faked, faker, faking, fakery, fakers, fakest, unfaked, fakeries