"posing" In Word Games

1. the act or practice of assuming a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: The new website aims to strip away the pretentious posing of wine connoisseurs, inviting users to “tell us what tastes good to you!”
2. the act or practice of falsely representing oneself: Under all his posing as an honest reporter, his real purpose is to defend a barbarous regime.
3. the act of assuming or holding a particular physical position, or of placing someone else in such a position, as for a portrait or photograph: She liked to paint women and children, and the natural posing of her subjects is still unsurpassed.
4. the act of putting forward, stating, or suggesting something, as a question, hypothesis, matter for consideration, etc.: Classroom strategies like cooperative learning and the posing of open-ended questions can encourage thinking and discussion.
5. falsely representing oneself, or assuming a particular attitude or stance in the hope of impressing others: I don’t fit in—everyone else in that place is a filmmaker, an "edgy" magazine journalist, or a posing hipster.
6. assuming a particular physical position, as for a portrait or photograph: I love how real and natural these images are—no posing tourists, just scenic beauty on its own.

"posing" synonyms:

• modelling,
• modeling,
• poising,
• sitting,
• standing,
• strutting,
• striking-a-pose,
• taking-up-a-position,
• positioning-yourself,
• arranging-yourself,
• sitting-for,
• posturing,
• placing,
• positioning,
• arranging,
• putting,
• disposing,
• locating,
• situating

"posing" antonyms:

• humility,
• modesty,
• unassumingness,
• unpretentiousness,
• honesty,
• reality,
• truth,
• humbleness,
• discreetness,
• unostentatiousness,
• frankness,
• honor,
• honour,
• openness,
• truthfulness,
• uprightness,
• cessation,
• idleness,
• inactivity

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