pretension

Meanings

Plural: pretensions

Noun

• a false or unsupportable quality
• 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)
• A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
• Pretentiousness.

Verb

• To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
• To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.

Synonyms

largeness, pretence, pretense, pretentiousness

Antonyms

unpretentiousness

Related Words

pretense, pretentious