(adj) imagined as in a play, Syn. pretend, Example:the make-believe world of theater; play money; dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish
[じ, ji] (n) (1) thing; matter; (2) incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; (3) circumstances; situation; state of affairs; (4) work; business; affair; (5) after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; (n-suf) (6) (See 事・ごと・1) nominalizing suffix; (7) (See 事・ごと・2) pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; (P)#353
[きょうげん, kyougen] (n) (1) (See 本狂言, 間狂言) kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; (2) kabuki play; kabuki performance; (3) make-believe; ruse; trick; (P)#18044