Dissembling
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To disguise or conceal something.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The action of the verb dissemble
Pretense
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A false or hypocritical profession, as, under pretense of friendliness; sham, pretext, claim; an effort to give some appearance or mislead.
Example sentence: It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.