pretension (175 synonym found)

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platitudinous ponderosity
polysyllabic profundity
ostentatious complexity
swelling utterance
lofty affectations
high-flown diction
prunes and prisms
presumptive right
pompous prolixity
ostensible motive
inalienable right
ostentatiousness
meretriciousness
window dressing
vested interest
sententiousness
putting on airs
pretentiousness
airs and graces
swollen phrase
stalking-horse
sensationalism
rhetoricalness
representation
property right
grandiloquence
feigned belief
conjugal right
attitudinizing
unnaturalness
public motive
prose run mad
pontification
natural right
mere rhetoric
magniloquence
lexiphanicism
grandioseness
four-flushing
dissimulation
artificiality
ambitiousness
vested right
tortuousness
speciousness
smoke screen
public image
protestation
proper claim
prescription
outward show
make-believe
locus standi
inflatedness
divine right
dissemblance
appurtenance
affectedness
turgescence
swollenness
stylishness
stiltedness
pretensions
prerogative
poor excuse
pompousness
ostentation
lame excuse
insincerity
grandiosity
fulsomeness
false front
dissembling
cover story
bedizenment
affectation
tortuosity
subterfuge
simulation
simulacrum
pretending
playacting
orotundity
masquerade
humbuggery
garishness
flatulency
flatulence
flashiness
false show
birthright
aspiration
appearance
turgidity
tumidness
tall talk
stratagem
showiness
semblance
pomposity
mere show
mannerism
luridness
loftiness
inflation
imposture
hypocrisy
gaudiness
false air
deception
Barnumism
authority
ambitions
tumidity
rhetoric
pretense
interest
feigning
disguise
delusion
cover-up
coloring
cheating
bluffing
big talk
varnish
seeming
put-off
pretext
posture
pageant
falsity
faculty
charade
apology
screen
refuge
put-on
posing
ostent
humbug
handle
faking
fakery
facade
excuse
device
demand
acting
trick
title
right
power
image
guise
gloss
front
fraud
feint
droit
color
cloak
claim
bluff
blind
alibi
veil
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pose
mask
gilt
face
airs
due
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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