mummery

noun

A performance by mummers.

A pretentious or hypocritical show or ceremony.

Pantomime as enacted by mummers; a show or performance of mummers.

A ceremony or performance considered false or pretentious; farcical show; hypocritical disguise and paradc: applied in contempt to various religious ceremonies by people who are of other sects or beliefs.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.