If someone feigns a particular feeling, attitude, or physical condition, they try to make other people think that they have it or are experiencing it, although this is not true. One morning, I didn't want to go to school, and decided to feign illness `Giles phoned this morning,' Mirella said with feigned indifference. = affect. to pretend to have a particular feeling or to be ill, asleep etc (feindre, from fingere )
make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache
make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep"
To give a mental existence to something that is not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; to pretend; to form and relate as if true