pretensions

Meanings

Noun

• a false or unsupportable quality
• the advancing of a claim
  • "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)
• plural of pretension

Synonyms

largeness, pretence, pretense, pretension, pretentiousness

Antonyms

unpretentiousness