Dream
Dream noun - A conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality.
Masquerade and dream are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Masquerade" instead a noun "Dream".
Masquerade
Masquerade noun - A display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive.
Dream and masquerade are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dream" instead a noun "Masquerade".
Nearby Words: masqueraded, masquerading
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Both words in one sentence
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He won't actually die permanently, since this is in the dream world, but he doesn't know that and everyone else is keeping up the masquerade.
Source: Black Comedy Burst -
The Dreamcatchers Masquerade takes place in a dream world of sorts where "dreams" grow on trees and nightmare creatures roam the night.
Source: Dream Land - Initially played straight in Justin Lieber's Beyond Rejection as required by a masquerade; justified later when it's revealed that the "masquerade" was actually part of an artificially-induced therapeutic dream intended to enable the protagonist to adapt to an involuntary Gender Bender.
Source: Third Law of Gender Bending
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