make-believe

noun

if that was make-believe I can't wait to sample the real thing:

fantasy, pretense, pretending, daydreaming, dreaming, imagination, invention, fancy, dream, unreality, romancing, fabrication, playacting, charade, masquerade, self-deception, illusion, delusion.

▷antonyms reality.

adjective

Heather loved reading stories and was always having make-believe adventures:

imaginary, imagined, pretended, made-up, fantasy, fantasized, fancied, dream, dreamed-up, unreal, fanciful, fictitious, fictive, mythical, feigned, fake, mock, sham, simulated, pseudo, false, spurious;

informal pretend, phoney;

South African play-play.

▷antonyms real, actual.