make-believe /(?)/
make·-be·lieve
make-believe
n.
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A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
To forswear self-delusion and make-believe.
Make-believe
a.
- Feigned; insincere.
- Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom he often talked.