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Feign vs Masquerade - What's the difference?

feign | masquerade |

As verbs the difference between feign and masquerade

is that feign is to make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit while masquerade is to assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.

As a noun masquerade is

a party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.

feign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make a false copy or version of; to counterfeit.
    • The pupil feigned sickness on the day of his exam.
    They feigned her signature on the cheque.
  • To imagine; to invent; to pretend.
    • He feigned that he had gone home at the appointed time.
  • To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent.
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    • Cahill was beaten far too easily for Miller's goal, although the striker deserves the credit for the way he controlled Alan Hutton's right-wing delivery, with his back to goal, feigned to his left then went the other way and pinged a splendid left-foot shot into Hart's bottom right-hand corner.
  • To hide or conceal.
    • Jessica feigned the fact that she had not done her homework.

    Synonyms

    * (represent by a false appearance) front, put on airs

    masquerade

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A party or assembly of people wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
    • In courtly balls and midnight masquerades -
  • (obsolete) A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See “mask”
  • Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
    • I was invited to the masquerade at their home.
    That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome -
  • (archaic) A Spanish entertainment in which squadrons of horses charge at each other, the riders fighting with bucklers and canes.

    • See also

    * costume party

    Verb

  • To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
    • I'm going to masquerade as the wikipede. What are you going to dress up as?
  • To frolic or disport in disguise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
    • He masqueraded as my friend until the truth finally came out.
    A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin -
  • To conceal with masks; to disguise.
    • To masquerade vice - Killingbeck