1. A false or unsupportable quality
   - pretense [N. Amer], pretence [Brit, Cdn] 
2. The advancing of a claim
   "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort" 
3. The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
   - pretentiousness, largeness

Derived forms: pretensions

See also: pretend

Type of: artificiality, claim, unnaturalness

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