1. make-believe - Noun
2. make-believe - Adjective
3. make-believe - Verb
4. make-believe - Adjective Satellite
A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
Feigned; insincere.
Source: Webster's dictionarymake believe
Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part. William Hazlitt
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. Louis-Ferdinand Céline
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off. Thomas Henry Huxley
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe. Henry David Thoreau
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. Jim Henson
There is no make-believe about heaven, future bliss, and compensation, to alleviate the bitter majesty, but only utter darkness, the void of unfulfillment, to receive and eat back the lives that have been tossed forth from the womb only to fail. Joseph Campbell