pretension
1. a false or unsupportable quality (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
pretense, pretence
• Derivationally related forms:
pretend (for: pretense)
• Hypernyms:
artificiality
2. the advancing of a claim
- his pretension to the crown
- the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort
• Derivationally related forms:
pretend
• Hypernyms:
claim
3. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
• Syn:
pretentiousness, largeness
• Ant:
unpretentiousness (for: pretentiousness)
• Derivationally related forms:
large (for: largeness), pretentious (for: pretentiousness)
• Hypernyms:
unnaturalness
• Hyponyms:
ostentation
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