Prospero acting affectation affectedness airiness airs airs and graces appearance artificiality attitudinizing bluff bluffing cheating color coloring deception delusion delusiveness disguise dissemblance dissembling dissimulation facade face fakery faking fallaciousness false air false appearance false front false light falseness falsity feigned belief feigning feint four-flushing fraud front gilt gloss humbug humbuggery hypocrisy idealization illusionism illusionist illusiveness image immateriality imposture insincerity magic magic act magic show magician mannerism masquerade mere show meretriciousness ostentation outward show playacting pose posing posture prestidigitation pretense pretension pretext prunes and prisms public image put-on putting on airs representation seeming semblance sham show simulacrum simulation sleight of hand sorcerer sorcery specious appearance speciousness stylishness unactuality unnaturalness unreality unsubstantiality varnish window dressing