pretension

noun

/prɪˈtenʃn/

[countable, usually plural, uncountable]

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the act of trying to appear more important, intelligent, etc. than you are in order to impress other people
- intellectual pretensions
- The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class.
- He spoke without pretension.
- She was a bored housewife with social pretensions.
- She was charmed by his lack of pretension.
a claim to be or to do something
- pretension to (doing) something a building with no pretensions to architectural merit
- pretension (to do something) The movie makes no pretension to reproduce life.

Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin praetensio(n-), from praetens- ‘alleged’, from the verb praetendere ‘stretch forth, claim’, from prae ‘before’ + tendere ‘stretch’.

单词	pretension
释义	pretension noun /prɪˈtenʃn/ /prɪˈtenʃn/ [countable, usually plural, uncountable] jump to other results the act of trying to appear more important, intelligent, etc. than you are in order to impress other people intellectual pretensions The play mocks the pretensions of the new middle class. He spoke without pretension. She was a bored housewife with social pretensions. She was charmed by his lack of pretension. a claim to be or to do something pretension to (doing) something a building with no pretensions to architectural merit pretension (to do something) The movie makes no pretension to reproduce life. Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin praetensio(n-), from praetens- ‘alleged’, from the verb praetendere ‘stretch forth, claim’, from prae ‘before’ + tendere ‘stretch’.
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