pretense vs deceit

pretense and deceit both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pretense	Yes	No	No	No
deceit	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hypernyms of pretense include deception, dissembling, dissimulation.

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

Other hypernyms of pretense include deception, misrepresentation.

pretense (noun)	deceit (noun)
the act of giving a false appearance	the act of deceiving
a false or unsupportable quality	the quality of being fraudulent
an artful or simulated semblance	a misleading falsehood
imaginative intellectual play
pretending with intention to deceive