playacting

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: play=act=ing

THESAURUS

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