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  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.
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              The arrogant pretensions of Glengarry contributed to
              protract the discussion.              --Macaulay.
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     2. A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or
        assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a
        certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
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              This was but an invention and pretension given out
              by the Spaniards.                     --Bacon.
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              Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor
              their pretensions.                    --L'Estrange.
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  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.
  
              The arrogant pretensions of Glengarry contributed to
              protract the discussion.              --Macaulay.
  
     2. A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or
        assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a
        certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
  
              This was but an invention and pretension given out
              by the Spaniards.                     --Bacon.
  
              Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor
              their pretensions.                    --L'Estrange.

  pretension
       n 1: a false or unsupportable quality [syn: pretense, pretence]
       2: the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown";
          "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous
          resort"
       3: the quality of being pretentious (creating a false
          appearance of great importance or worth) [syn: pretentiousness]
          [ant: unpretentiousness]

  pretension
     Αγγλικά n.
     η αξίωση

  pretension
     alt.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     n.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     vb.
     1 To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
     2 (lb en construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before
  concrete is poured in.

  pretension
     alt.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     n.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     vb.
     1 To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
     2 (lb en construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before
  concrete is poured in.

  pretension
     alt.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     n.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     vb.
     1 To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
     2 (lb en construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before
  concrete is poured in.

  pretension
     alt.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     n.
     A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
     vb.
     1 To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
     2 (lb en construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before
  concrete is poured in.

  pretension
     Englanti n.
     1 mahtailu, suuriluuloisuus, teeskentely
     2 väite
     3 pyrkimys

  pretension
     Engelska n.
     pretention

  Pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  الذريعة

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/ 
  1. претенция
  claim
  2. претенциозност
  pretentiousness

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/ 
  aspirace

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/ 
  domýšlivost

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  Ambition , ehrgeiziges Streben 
        "of modest pretensions"  - mit geringen Ambitionen
     Synonym: ambition
  
   see: ambitions, have designs on sth.
  

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  Anmaßung 
   see: pretensions
  

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  Anspruch , Forderung , Prätension 
   see: pretensions
  

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  
  αξίωση

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/ 
  1. दावा
        "Have social pretentions for being a citizen."

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  pretvaranje, traženje, zahtjev

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  1. elbizakodottság
  2. igény
  3. kifogás
  4. jogigény
  5. ürügy
  6. követelés
  7. önhittség

  pretension /prɪˈtenʃən/ 
    aspiracje, pretensje

  pretension /pɹɪtˈɛnʃən/
  1. iddia, hak iddiası, istek
  2. haksız istek veya iddia
  3. gösteriş.

  pretension 
  pretensió  

  
/pɹiˈtɛnʃən/

  175 Moby Thesaurus words for "pretension":
     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
  
  

  n. 自负,骄傲,主张;

     n. 自负,骄傲,主张