pretension

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

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  • Pretension# — Pretension (see also CLAIM, AMBITION) is rarely used in place of pretense as a concrete act, appearance, or statement, but it is often used in the sense of false show or the evidence of it, with, however, somewhat differing implications. Where… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • pretensión — (Del lat. praetensĭo, ōnis). 1. f. Solicitación para conseguir algo que se desea. 2. Derecho bien o mal fundado que alguien juzga tener sobre algo. 3. Aspiración ambiciosa o desmedida. U. m. en pl.) 4. Der. Objeto de una acción procesal,… …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • Pretensión — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Figura eminentemente procesal, que consiste en realizar una manifestación de voluntad ante el ente jurisdiccional, para hacer valer un derecho o pedir el cumplimiento de una obligación. Principalmente un acto… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Pretension — Pre*ten sion, n. [Cf. F. pr[ e]tention. See {Pretend}, {Tension}.] 1. The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title. [1913 Webster] The arrogant pretensions of Glengarry contributed to protract the discussion.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pretension — [n1] airs, snobbishness affectation, big talk*, charade, conceit, disguise, fake*, false front*, front, hypocrisy, ostentation, phony, pomposity, pretentiousness, put on*, self importance, show, showboat*, showiness, showoff, snobbery, splash*,… …   New thesaurus

  • pretension — ► NOUN 1) (pretension to) a claim or assertion of a claim to. 2) (pretensions) aspirations or claims to a specified status or quality: literary pretensions. 3) pretentiousness …   English terms dictionary

  • pretension — index artifice, disguise, droit, hypocrisy, jactation, pretense (ostentation), pretext, rhetoric (in …   Law dictionary

  • pretensión — ‘Acción de pretender’ y ‘deseo o ambición’: «No se le olvide eso, mi amigo, si es que tiene pretensiones de mando» (Herrera Casa [Ven. 1985]). Esta voz procede del latín medieval praetensio. Debe evitarse la grafía ⊕ pretención, debida… …   Diccionario panhispánico de dudas

  • pretension — (n.) c.1600, assertion, from M.L. praetensio, from praetensus (see PRETENSE (Cf. pretense)). Sense of ostentation is from 1727 …   Etymology dictionary

  • pretension — [prē ten′shən, priten′shən] n. [ML praetensio < praetensus: see PRETENSE] 1. a pretext or allegation 2. a claim, as to a right, title, distinction, etc. 3. assertion of a claim 4. pretentiousness; ostentation …   English World dictionary

  • pretensión — ► sustantivo femenino 1 Acción de aspirar a alguna cosa: ■ ya de niña mi pretensión era ser actriz. SINÓNIMO propósito 2 Derecho que una persona considera que tiene sobre una cosa. 3 Presuncion o vanidad: ■ desde que es famoso tiene mucha… …   Enciclopedia Universal

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