make-believe vs pretense

make-believe and pretense both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

Other synonyms of make-believe include pretence.

make-believe (noun)	pretense (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)	pretense (adjective)
imagined as in a play