playacting Synonyms

acting playing performing pantomiming portrayal personation performance mummery mime melodramatic masquerade make-believe impersonation pose posing miming fakery attitudinizing campy stage business overacting show sham representation pretension pretense ham gloss bluff behaving awkward assumed artificial appearance apish affectation activity action act bluffing buffoonery game fraud facade enactment dissimulation dissembling disguise charade characterization