IMPOSTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imposture mean? 

• IMPOSTURE (noun)
  The noun IMPOSTURE has 1 sense:

1. pretending to be another person

  Familiarity information: IMPOSTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPOSTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pretending to be another person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

impersonation; imposture

Hypernyms ("imposture" is a kind of...):

deceit; deception; dissembling; dissimulation (the act of deceiving)

 Context examples 

“Good heavens!” cried the Colonel, laughing, “do you mean to say all our sympathy was wasted and your fit an imposture?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was so conscious of having passed through scenes of which they could have no knowledge, and of having acquired experiences foreign to my age, appearance, and condition as one of them, that I half believed it was an imposture to come there as an ordinary little schoolboy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)