Synonyms for Pre-tensions:

• n.

  •affectation (noun)
  • facade,
  • putting on airs,
  • appearance,
  • artificiality,
  • imitation,
  • pose,
  • insincerity,
  • going hollywood,
  • sham,
  • pretension,
  • air,
  • mannerism,
  • simulation,
  • showing off.
  •airs (noun)
  • arrogance,
  • haughtiness,
  • superciliousness,
  • affectedness,
  • Hauteur.
  •ambition (noun)
  • right stuff,
  • hope,
  • desire,
  • energy,
  • keenness,
  • avidity,
  • hunger,
  • emulation,
  • striving,
  • eagerness,
  • appetite,
  • enterprise,
  • longing,
  • fire in belly,
  • passion,
  • hankering,
  • get up and go,
  • vigor,
  • moxie,
  • drive,
  • love,
  • push,
  • initiative,
  • spirit,
  • earnestness,
  • zeal,
  • ardor,
  • thirst,
  • itch,
  • yearning,
  • enthusiasm,
  • lust,
  • craving.
  •arrogance (noun)
  • nerve,
  • crust,
  • smugness,
  • presumption,
  • priggishness,
  • bluster,
  • ego,
  • pride,
  • audacity,
  • imperiousness,
  • egotism,
  • pompousness,
  • cheek,
  • disdain,
  • aloofness,
  • scornfulness,
  • self-love,
  • Contemptuousness,
  • hubris,
  • disdainfulness,
  • chutzpah,
  • Conceitedness,
  • braggadocio,
  • brass,
  • insolence,
  • high-handedness,
  • gall,
  • overbearance,
  • loftiness,
  • swagger.
  •boast (noun)
  • bravado,
  • grandiloquence,
  • pride and joy,
  • vaunt,
  • joy,
  • heroics,
  • gasconade,
  • exaggeration,
  • bombast,
  • avowal,
  • self-satisfaction,
  • treasure.
  •bravado (noun)
  • Fuming,
  • fancy talk,
  • hot air,
  • grandiosity,
  • swelling,
  • guts,
  • railing,
  • blowing,
  • crowing,
  • rant,
  • bragging,
  • talk,
  • Fanfaronade,
  • bluff,
  • swaggering,
  • Storming,
  • selfglorification,
  • boasting,
  • raging,
  • tall talk,
  • bullying.
  •charade (noun)
  • travesty,
  • mimicry,
  • deception,
  • parody,
  • trick,
  • farce,
  • pantomime.
  •claim (noun)
  • call,
  • affirmation,
  • case,
  • entreaty,
  • assertion,
  • request,
  • prerogative,
  • Dibs,
  • birthright,
  • ultimatum,
  • due,
  • petition,
  • requisition,
  • part,
  • requirement,
  • suit,
  • postulation,
  • reclamation,
  • application,
  • counterclaim,
  • plea,
  • privilege,
  • protestation,
  • lien,
  • interest.
  •delusions of grandeur (noun)
  • swank,
  • vaporing,
  • pretensions,
  • airs,
  • vain pretensions.
  •disguise (noun)
  • smoke screen,
  • veneer,
  • red herring,
  • cloak,
  • beard,
  • costume,
  • guise,
  • blind,
  • masquerade,
  • illusion,
  • veil,
  • mask,
  • dress,
  • faking,
  • counterfeit,
  • color,
  • semblance,
  • trickery,
  • screen,
  • concealment,
  • fig leaf,
  • dissimulation,
  • coloring,
  • pen name,
  • face,
  • pseudonym,
  • camouflage,
  • cover-up,
  • get-up.
  •display (noun)
  • example,
  • fanfare,
  • pomp,
  • expo,
  • array,
  • parade,
  • act,
  • exposure,
  • sample,
  • manifestation,
  • arrangement,
  • splendor,
  • ostentatiousness,
  • splurge,
  • arrayal,
  • presentation,
  • blaze,
  • grandstand play,
  • panorama,
  • exhibition,
  • demonstration,
  • exposition,
  • exhibit,
  • spread,
  • for show,
  • shine,
  • unfolding,
  • scheme,
  • pedantry,
  • flourish,
  • dash,
  • frippery,
  • layout,
  • frame-up,
  • revelation,
  • Bravura.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • embroidery,
  • caricature,
  • exaltation,
  • misrepresentation,
  • flight of fancy,
  • extravagance,
  • tall story,
  • fish story,
  • fancy,
  • hyperbole,
  • figure of speech,
  • falsehood,
  • overestimation,
  • hogwash,
  • fantasy,
  • fabrication,
  • stretch,
  • emphasis,
  • inflation,
  • baloney,
  • romance,
  • excess,
  • yarn,
  • crock,
  • Misjudgment,
  • overemphasis,
  • elaboration,
  • untruth,
  • amplification,
  • whopper,
  • aggrandizement,
  • line,
  • jazz,
  • magnification,
  • enlargement.
  •false pretense (noun)
  • false pretension,
  • hollow pretense,
  • false colors,
  • feign.
  •feint (noun)
  • deceit,
  • wile,
  • gambit,
  • artifice,
  • expedient,
  • hoax,
  • ploy,
  • play,
  • maneuver,
  • imposture,
  • ruse,
  • stall,
  • shift,
  • bait,
  • dodge,
  • cheat,
  • mock attack,
  • distraction,
  • stratagem,
  • duck,
  • subterfuge,
  • snare,
  • hoodwinking.
  •grandioseness (noun)
  • va.
  •grandiosity (noun)
  • grandioseness.
  •hubris (noun)
  • cockiness.
  •imposture (noun)
  • flimflam,
  • swindle,
  • feint,
  • fiddle,
  • forgery,
  • imposition,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • con,
  • sell,
  • quackery,
  • copy,
  • impersonation,
  • sleight,
  • spoof.
  •loftiness (noun)
  • overbearingness,
  • pridefulness,
  • superiority,
  • lordliness,
  • Proudness.
  •make-believe (noun)
  • fairy tale,
  • fakery,
  • imagination,
  • dream,
  • playacting.
  •mannerism (noun)
  • foible,
  • idiosyncrasy,
  • oddness,
  • habit,
  • eccentricity,
  • characteristic,
  • queerness,
  • trait,
  • quirk,
  • singularity.
  •ostentation (noun)
  • flamboyance,
  • pretending,
  • brag,
  • window-dressing,
  • Flaunting,
  • flash,
  • garishness,
  • boast,
  • magnificence,
  • display,
  • Vaunting,
  • spectacle,
  • pageantry,
  • Parading,
  • fuss.
  •pedantry (noun)
  • dogmatism,
  • precision,
  • bookishness,
  • meticulousness,
  • pedagogery,
  • exactness.
  •pomposity (noun)
  • balderdash,
  • nonsense.
  •pose (noun)
  • carriage,
  • posturing,
  • false show,
  • attitudinizing,
  • stance,
  • role,
  • posture,
  • mien,
  • bearing,
  • attitude,
  • stand,
  • Positure.
  •pretension (noun)
  • showboat,
  • maintenance,
  • splash,
  • declaration,
  • ambition,
  • charade,
  • self-importance,
  • affectation,
  • showoff,
  • front,
  • pomposity,
  • profession,
  • pretentiousness,
  • false front,
  • vanity,
  • disguise,
  • vainglory,
  • showiness,
  • ambitiousness,
  • aspiration,
  • phony,
  • ostentation,
  • conceit,
  • put-on,
  • allegation,
  • fake,
  • snobbery,
  • title,
  • pretense,
  • pageant,
  • assumption,
  • make-believe,
  • show,
  • demand,
  • big talk,
  • hypocrisy,
  • pretext.
  •pretentiousness (noun)
  • vaingloriousness,
  • bigheadedness.
  •pride (noun)
  • huff,
  • superbity,
  • contumely,
  • egoism,
  • immodesty,
  • patronage,
  • narcissism,
  • big-headedness,
  • proud flesh,
  • pragmatism,
  • condescension,
  • overconfidence,
  • swelled head,
  • Self-exaltation.
  •rodomontade (noun)
  • braggart.
  •snobbery (noun)
  • snobbishness,
  • snootiness.
  •tall talk (noun)
  • overstatement,
  • Hyperbolism.
  •title (noun)
  • ownership,
  • ribbon,
  • degree,
  • decoration,
  • license,
  • deed,
  • entitlement,
  • authority,
  • crown,
  • holding,
  • commission,
  • medal,
  • merit,
  • championship,
  • justification,
  • power,
  • right,
  • claim,
  • desert,
  • proof,
  • crest.
  •vainglory (noun)
  • boastfulness,
  • Strutting.
  •vanity (noun)
  • Self-admiration,
  • ego trip,
  • self-worship.

Antonyms for Pre-tensions:

• n.

  • affectation
    simplicity, naturalness, personality.
  • airs
    truthfulness, meekness, realness.
  • ambition
    diffidence, distaste, disinterest, idleness, apathy, aversion, repulsion, hatred, dislike, inactivity, disgust, lethargy, laziness, contentment, pessimism, hate, satisfaction, indifference.
  • arrogance
    caution, servility, shyness, carefulness, timidity.
  • boast
    deprecation.
  • bravado
    fearfulness, restraint, fear, cowardice.
  • claim
    reply, answer, denial.
  • disguise
    rear, back, character.
  • display
    hiding, plainness, dullness, concealment.
  • exaggeration
    decrease, compression, unembellishment, lessening, reduction, understatement, shrinkage, minimization.
  • feint
    frankness, openness.
  • hubris
    respect.
  • imposture
    uprightness, honor, original.
  • make-believe
    existence, substance.
  • ostentation
    reservation, ordinariness, quiet.
  • panoply
    cover.
  • pedantry
    inexactness, imprecision, inaccuracy.
  • pose
    movement.
  • pretension
    humility, modesty, reality, honesty, truth.
  • pride
    disgrace.
  • title
    disadvantage.