pretense vs dissembling

pretense and dissembling both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of pretense include deceit, deception, dissimulation.

As nouns, pretense and dissembling are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of pretense include feigning, pretence.

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