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pretension (175 synonym found)

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mask

aspiration

platitudinous ponderosity

seeming

bluffing

polysyllabic profundity

prescription

alibi

luridness

window dressing

smoke screen

divine right

ostentation

prose run mad

veil

swelling utterance

fraud

droit

prerogative

unnaturalness

apology

inflation

four-flushing

pompous prolixity

inflatedness

simulation

inalienable right

putting on airs

lofty affectations

face

put-on

dissemblance

show

locus standi

handle

acting

faculty

insincerity

outward show

make-believe

image

cover-up

tumidity

color

demand

affectedness

screen

lame excuse

swollen phrase

mere show

stalking-horse

protestation

appearance

flatulence

turgescence

vested interest

artificiality

property right

big talk

flashiness

airs and graces

swollenness

meretriciousness

facade

pretentiousness

put-off

excuse

pretending

false show

turgidity

public motive

magniloquence

simulacrum

hypocrisy

stylishness

trick

mannerism

Barnumism

posing

grandiloquence

birthright

guise

affectation

sententiousness

authority

playacting

pompousness

falsity

charade

tortuosity

ostent

feint

representation

pontification

coloring

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tumidness

gaudiness

feigned belief

stiltedness

claim

title

sensationalism

prunes and prisms

attitudinizing

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ostentatious complexity

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interest

fakery

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delusion

front

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power

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orotundity

posture

cover story

gloss

rhetoricalness

gilt

false air

grandioseness

grandiosity

conjugal right

pomposity

bedizenment

disguise

mere rhetoric

blind

loftiness

semblance

proper claim

due

pretense

vested right

garishness

speciousness

feigning

tall talk

airs

sham

bluff

varnish

pretensions

tortuousness

natural right

presumptive right

cloak

humbuggery

deception

high-flown diction

stratagem

showiness

flatulency

dissimulation

masquerade

right

fulsomeness

ambitiousness

subterfuge

pose

imposture

public image

ambitions

rhetoric

pretext

lexiphanicism

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Definition of pretension:

(n) : a claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality; Pretentiousness

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Definition of pretension:

(n) : a claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality; Pretentiousness

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