Existent
Existent adjective - Existing in fact and not merely as a possibility.
Usage example: to some people, angels are as existent as aardvarks or astronomers
Pretend
Pretend adjective - Not real and existing only in the imagination.
Usage example: it's just a pretend gun, so please pretend that I got you and play dead
Both words in one sentence
- Other like to pretend that their whole discography exists, except for the non-existent album In With the Out Crowd.
Source: Discontinuity / Music - The few men who are not infertile serve as fathers in rotation to several families, who pretend the others don't exist and the father is working at a non-existent job while away.
Source: Sterility Plague - In Brothers in Arms Miles also gets his real clone brother Mark to pretend to be a different, non-existent, clone brother to fool some Cetagandans.
Source: Refuge In Audacity / Literature
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