Defenition of the word pretension

• Defenition of the word pretension

  • a false or unsupportable quality
  • the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
  • the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
  • the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
  • the advancing of a claim

Synonyms for the word pretension

• • affectation
  • airs
  • posing
  • posturing
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretentiousness
  • self-importance

Similar words in the pretension

• • pretension
  • pretension's
  • pretensions

Hyponyms for the word pretension

• • ostentation

Hypernyms for the word pretension

• • artificiality
  • claim
  • unnaturalness

Antonyms for the word pretension

• • unpretentiousness

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