593 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pɹɪtˈɛnʃən], [ pɹɪtˈɛnʃən], [ p_ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]

Related words: pretentiousness, heavy handed, verbose, ostentatious, overwritten, pretentiousness in literature, impressionism, post-impressionism

Related question:

is pretension a good thing?

Similar words for pretension:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• affectation (noun)
• airs, snobbishness (noun)
• ambition (noun)
• arrogance (noun)
• boast (noun)
• bravado (noun)
• charade (noun)
• claim (noun)
• communication (noun)
• disguise (noun)
• display (noun)
• exaggeration (noun)
• false claim, assertion of importance (noun)
• false pretense (noun)
• feint (noun)
• hubris (noun)
• imposture (noun)
• make-believe (noun)
• mannerism (noun)
• ostentation (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pedantry (noun)
• pomposity (noun)
• pose (noun)
• pretension (noun)
• pretentiousness (noun)
• pride (noun)
• tall talk (noun)
• title (noun)
• vainglory (noun)
• vanity (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• bluster
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "pretension" in context?

Paraphrases for pretension

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Synonyms for Pretension:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • character trait.

• n.

  •
  • corruption,
  • assertion,
  • dishonesty,
  • guile,
  • smoke and mirrors,
  • duplicity,
  • deception,
  • declaration,
  • demand,
  • Double dealing,
  • foul play,
  • misconduct.
  •
  • maintenance,
  • flamboyance,
  • allegation.
  •
  • honest.
  •
  • request,
  • owned.
  •
  • plain.
  • affectation (noun)
  • showing offs,
  • in sincerity,
  • pre tension,
  • putting air,
  • putting on air,
  • going hollywoods,
  • in-sincerities,
  • pre-tensions,
  • pre tensions,
  • putting airs,
  • pre-tense,
  • pre-tenses,
  • pre tenses,
  • in sincerities,
  • pre-tension,
  • in-sincerity,
  • pre tense,
  • puton.
  • airs, snobbishness (noun)
  • fake,
  • show,
  • vainglory,
  • phony,
  • showiness,
  • self-importance,
  • put-on,
  • hypocrisy,
  • conceit,
  • splash,
  • big talk,
  • pretentiousness,
  • front,
  • showoff.
  • ambition (noun)
  • de sires,
  • get go,
  • get and go,
  • get up goes,
  • get up go,
  • get goes,
  • fire belly,
  • de sire,
  • de-sires,
  • get and goes,
  • de-sire.
  • arrogance (noun)
  • contemptuousnesses,
  • selfimportance,
  • highhandednesses,
  • conceitednesses,
  • disdainfulnesses,
  • imperiousnesses,
  • overbearances,
  • high handednesses,
  • self love,
  • high handedness,
  • smugnesses,
  • scornfulnesses,
  • self importance,
  • high-handednesses,
  • selflove.
  • boast (noun)
  • bombast,
  • self-approbation,
  • self-praise,
  • braggadocio.
  • bravado (noun)
  • braggings,
  • self-glorifications,
  • self glorification,
  • swaggerings,
  • stormings,
  • selfglorifications,
  • ragings,
  • blowings,
  • fancy talks,
  • self glorifications,
  • bullyings.
  • charade (noun)
  • panto mime,
  • panto-mimes,
  • panto mimes,
  • panto-mime.
  • claim (noun)
  • re-quests,
  • counter claims,
  • re quests,
  • counter-claims,
  • counter claim.
  • communication (noun)
  • pretension.
  • disguise (noun)
  • co loring,
  • dis-simulation,
  • fig leaves,
  • dis guise,
  • dis simulations,
  • co-lorings,
  • dis simulation,
  • dis-guises,
  • co lorings,
  • get-ups,
  • fakings,
  • dis-simulations,
  • co-loring,
  • get ups,
  • dis guises,
  • dissimulations,
  • dis-guise.
  • display (noun)
  • bravure,
  • dis play,
  • ex ample,
  • dis-plays,
  • bravuras,
  • arrayals,
  • frameup,
  • ex-position,
  • dis plays,
  • frameups,
  • frame ups,
  • re-velations,
  • dis-play,
  • re velation,
  • re-velation,
  • ostentatiousnesses,
  • ex-ample,
  • un folding,
  • un-folding,
  • grandstand plays,
  • ex-positions,
  • re velations.
  • exaggeration (noun)
  • exaltation,
  • overestimation,
  • extravagance,
  • tall talk,
  • overemphasis,
  • overemphasises,
  • tall story,
  • romance,
  • hogwash,
  • elaboration.
  • false claim, assertion of importance (noun)
  • aspiration,
  • pretense,
  • ambitiousness,
  • profession,
  • pageant,
  • assumption,
  • pretext.
  • false pretense (noun)
  • hollow pretense,
  • false pretension.
  • feint (noun)
  • dis tractions,
  • mock attacks,
  • dis-traction,
  • pre texts,
  • hoodwinkings,
  • pre-texts,
  • pre-text,
  • pre text,
  • dis-tractions,
  • dis traction.
  • hubris (noun)
  • cockinesses.
  • imposture (noun)
  • hocus pocus.
  • make-believe (noun)
  • fakery.
  • mannerism (noun)
  • queernesses,
  • oddnesses.
  • ostentation (noun)
  • window-dressing.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • counterclaim,
  • false pretense,
  • grandstand play,
  • mannerism,
  • enterprises,
  • counter-claim,
  • ambition,
  • snobbery,
  • frame-ups,
  • superciliousness,
  • highhandedness,
  • fig leaf,
  • false show,
  • charade,
  • self-glorification,
  • pantomime,
  • overbearance,
  • affectation,
  • affectedness,
  • Illusions,
  • cockiness,
  • lordliness,
  • Conceitedness,
  • cover up,
  • zeal,
  • pridefulness,
  • arrogance,
  • meticulousness,
  • vas,
  • exhibition,
  • frame up,
  • for show,
  • fumings,
  • mock attack,
  • ostentatiousness,
  • bravado,
  • feint,
  • disguise,
  • smugness,
  • masquerade,
  • pose,
  • Bravura,
  • showboats,
  • gall,
  • sham,
  • loftiness,
  • spirit,
  • coverup,
  • Positure,
  • disdainfulness,
  • bookishness,
  • fire in belly,
  • va,
  • requirements,
  • panoply,
  • initiative,
  • imperiousness,
  • dogmatism,
  • phonies,
  • title,
  • Fanfaronade,
  • exposure,
  • claim,
  • get-up,
  • requirement,
  • raging,
  • overbearingness,
  • high-handedness,
  • selfglorification,
  • pedagogery,
  • queerness,
  • expo,
  • love,
  • dissimulation,
  • pride,
  • self-love,
  • Proudness,
  • boast,
  • imposture,
  • pomposity,
  • arrayal,
  • stance,
  • pedantry,
  • putting on airs,
  • airs,
  • showboat,
  • make-believe,
  • fancy talk,
  • Hocuspocus,
  • EXPOS,
  • exaggeration,
  • false front,
  • scornfulness,
  • enterprise,
  • ostentation,
  • counterclaims,
  • get up and go,
  • oddness,
  • pantomimes,
  • crowings,
  • posturings,
  • display,
  • hubris,
  • Contemptuousness,
  • vanity,
  • frame-up.
  • pedantry (noun)
  • pedagogeries,
  • dogmatisms,
  • bookishnesses.
  • pomposity (noun)
  • non-sense,
  • non senses,
  • non sense.
  • pose (noun)
  • positures,
  • false shows,
  • attitudinizings.
  • pretension (noun)
  • bluff,
  • falseness,
  • impersonation,
  • fraud,
  • cover,
  • forgery,
  • guise,
  • facade,
  • counterfeit,
  • air,
  • stage,
  • device,
  • gimmick,
  • deceit,
  • artificiality,
  • imitation.
  • pretentiousness (noun)
  • vaingloriousness.
  • pride (noun)
  • pragmatism,
  • over-confidence,
  • immodesty,
  • superbity,
  • immodesties,
  • Self-exaltation,
  • big-headedness,
  • proud flesh,
  • egoisms.
  • tall talk (noun)
  • tall-talk,
  • over-statement,
  • over statement,
  • over-statements,
  • over statements.
  • title (noun)
  • entitlements,
  • medal,
  • entitlement.
  • vainglory (noun)
  • Strutting,
  • boastfulness.
  • vanity (noun)
  • self-worship.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • possession.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • one-upmanship,
  • grandstanding,
  • name-dropping,
  • theatrics,
  • self-promotion,
  • showboating,
  • grandioseness,
  • Dibs,
  • dog-and-pony show.
  •
  • grandiosity,
  • histrionics,
  • BLING,
  • swagger,
  • exhibitionist,
  • window dressing.
  •
  • parade.
  •
  • flash.
  • bluster
  • rodomontade.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • screen,
  • tumidity,
  • gloss,
  • pretence,
  • Ostent,
  • largeness,
  • bluster,
  • maintain,
  • tortuosity,
  • acknowledge,
  • quackery,
  • affirm,
  • locus standi,
  • allege,
  • insolent,
  • sesquipedality,
  • immodest,
  • design,
  • smoke screen,
  • playacting,
  • mark,
  • condescending,
  • face,
  • varnish,
  • luridness,
  • authority,
  • confess,
  • Snobbism,
  • side,
  • self-consequence,
  • Dueness,
  • Advocation,
  • charlatanism,
  • appearance,
  • name,
  • put-off,
  • rhetoric,
  • establish,
  • protestation,
  • stalking-horse,
  • Altiloquence,
  • VESTED RIGHT,
  • Dissemblance,
  • stake,
  • thing,
  • subterfuge,
  • liberty,
  • stand for,
  • justify,
  • haughtiness,
  • attest,
  • contend,
  • egotistical,
  • conjugal right,
  • euphuism,
  • bumptiousness,
  • dream,
  • flatulent,
  • condescension,
  • Purism,
  • plea,
  • pretensions,
  • birthright,
  • tortuousness,
  • brash,
  • flourish,
  • Flaunting,
  • magniloquence,
  • ambitions,
  • fulsomeness,
  • delusion,
  • alibi,
  • motive,
  • ratify,
  • stiltedness,
  • mask,
  • sanctimoniousness,
  • prove,
  • cocky,
  • flatulence,
  • four-flushing,
  • exhibitionism,
  • pontification,
  • presumptuousness,
  • conceited,
  • Precisianism,
  • disdain,
  • Macrology,
  • interest,
  • garishness,
  • Bedizenment,
  • Turgescence,
  • approve,
  • dissembling,
  • full of oneself,
  • insincerity,
  • cloak,
  • advocate,
  • put on,
  • appurtenance,
  • splashiness,
  • image,
  • sensationalism,
  • disdainful,
  • presumption,
  • color,
  • haughty,
  • Droit,
  • franchise,
  • turgidity,
  • semblance,
  • narcissistic,
  • bombastic,
  • acting,
  • lofty,
  • cant,
  • smokescreen,
  • aver,
  • provide,
  • impertinence,
  • flatulency,
  • meretriciousness,
  • argue,
  • pompousness,
  • inflatedness,
  • Peremptoriness,
  • affected,
  • arrogant,
  • snobbishness,
  • intention,
  • blind,
  • vindication,
  • unnaturalness,
  • assure,
  • insolence,
  • posing,
  • indicate,
  • comprehensiveness,
  • cheating,
  • prescription,
  • feign,
  • due,
  • faculty,
  • veil,
  • convolution,
  • tumidness,
  • responsible,
  • vested interest,
  • speciousness,
  • simulation,
  • fustian,
  • corroborate,
  • sanctimony,
  • inalienable right,
  • rant,
  • snottiness,
  • affirmation,
  • nerve,
  • pompous,
  • refuge,
  • grandiloquence,
  • falsity,
  • Hauteur,
  • certify,
  • toploftiness,
  • gilt,
  • inflated,
  • trick,
  • stylishness,
  • unpretending,
  • pronounce,
  • faking,
  • strut one's stuff,
  • Vainness,
  • handle,
  • Self-admiration,
  • airs and graces,
  • dignified,
  • feigning,
  • lip service,
  • uppishness,
  • admit,
  • pretending,
  • power,
  • Lexiphanicism,
  • representation,
  • gaudiness,
  • effrontery,
  • natural right,
  • prerogative,
  • colouring,
  • flashiness,
  • humbug,
  • emphasize,
  • assert,
  • endorse,
  • public image,
  • coloring,
  • gasconade,
  • egotism,
  • masterfulness,
  • allow,
  • bumptious,
  • stratagem,
  • consequential,
  • purpose,
  • idea,
  • call,
  • immunity,
  • cover story,
  • posture,
  • confirm,
  • inflation,
  • imperious,
  • Bluffing,
  • Orotundity,
  • snootiness,
  • apology,
  • vouch,
  • superiority,
  • self-assertion,
  • license,
  • self-centredness,
  • privilege,
  • attitudinizing,
  • Sententiousness,
  • declare,
  • seeming,
  • Humbuggery,
  • presumptive right,
  • appoint,
  • poor excuse,
  • bring forward,
  • observe,
  • divine right,
  • narcissism,
  • simulacrum,
  • property right,
  • excuse,
  • avow,
  • represent,
  • goal,
  • denote,
  • right,
  • profess.

How to use "Pretension" in context?

Paraphrases for Pretension:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    pretence.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    assertion, claim.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    allegation, presumption.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    aspiration, contention, pretense, submission.

Hyponym for Pretension:

• n.

  • communication
    claim.