make-believe vs pretence

make-believe and pretence both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
make-believe	Yes	Yes	No	No
pretence	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pretence is a hypernym of make-believe; that is, pretence is a word with a broader meaning than make-believe:

Other hypernyms of make-believe include feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation.

As nouns, make-believe and pretence are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of make-believe include pretense.

make-believe (noun)	pretence (noun)
the enactment of a pretense	the act of giving a false appearance
imaginative intellectual play	a false or unsupportable quality
	an artful or simulated semblance
	imaginative intellectual play
	pretending with intention to deceive

make-believe (adjective)	pretence (adjective)
imagined as in a play