pretension (175 synonym found)

Pretension has 175 synonyms. The top synonyms for pretension are humbuggery, semblance, prose run mad, put-off, flatulence, playacting, mere rhetoric, stylishness and 167 more. Another word for pretension is humbuggery. Browse the full list below.

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

Frequently asked questions

What is a synonym for pretension?

A common synonym for pretension is humbuggery. Other synonyms include semblance, prose run mad, put-off, flatulence.

How many synonyms does pretension have?

Pretension has 175 synonyms listed on Thesaurasize.

What does pretension mean?

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

Definition of pretension:

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