Arrival vs Pretense - What's the difference?
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The act of arriving or something that has arrived.
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, chapter=5, title= The attainment of an objective, especially as a result of effort.
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, title= (US) A false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness.
Intention or purpose not real but professed.
An unsupported claim made or implied.
An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.
Arrival is a related term of pretense.
As nouns the difference between arrival and pretense
is that arrival is the act of arriving or something that has arrived while pretense is (us) a false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness.arrival
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Antonyms
* departurepretense
English
Alternative forms
* pretence (Only correct spelling in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and Commonwealth countries, and historical use in the United States) * (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- with only a pretense of accuracy