Definition for Pretension:

• the advancing of a claim; " his pretension to the crown"; " the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"

Synonyms for Pretension:

• n.

  •
  • assertion,
  • demand,
  • declaration,
  • deception.
  •
  • maintenance,
  • flamboyance,
  • allegation.
  •airs, snobbishness (noun)
  • fake,
  • pretentiousness,
  • showoff,
  • phony,
  • splash,
  • showiness,
  • conceit,
  • self-importance,
  • vainglory,
  • hypocrisy,
  • show,
  • big talk,
  • front.
  •boast (noun)
  • bombast,
  • self-approbation,
  • self-praise,
  • braggadocio.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • tall talk.
  •false claim, assertion of importance (noun)
  • aspiration,
  • pretense,
  • ambitiousness,
  • profession,
  • pageant,
  • assumption,
  • pretext.
  •false pretense (noun)
  • false pretension.
  •make-believe (noun)
  • fakery.
  •pretension (noun)
  • bluff,
  • falseness,
  • impersonation,
  • fraud,
  • cover,
  • forgery,
  • guise,
  • facade,
  • counterfeit,
  • air,
  • stage,
  • device,
  • gimmick,
  • deceit,
  • artificiality,
  • imitation.

• Other synonyms:

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

Paraphrases for Pretension:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    pretence.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    assertion, claim.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    presumption, allegation.

• Other Related

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

Antonyms for Pretension:

• n.

  • airs, snobbishness
    truth, humility, reality, modesty, honesty.
  • Other antonyms:
    diffidence, actuality, quietness, simplicity, waiver, reserve, passiveness, fact, reservedness, ingenuousness, mousiness, method, self-distrust, quitclaim, frankness, disclaimer, submissiveness, naturalness, way, self-doubt, guilelessness, bashfulness, openness, release, candor, timidity, unassumingness, passivity, shyness, retiringness, timidness, sincerity, means.

Hyponym for Pretension:

• n.

  • communication
    claim.