pretense vs imaging

pretense and imaging both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of pretense include imagery, imagination, mental imagery.

pretense (noun)	imaging (noun)
the act of giving a false appearance	(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body
a false or unsupportable quality	the ability to form mental images of things or events
an artful or simulated semblance
imaginative intellectual play
pretending with intention to deceive