Associations to the word «Pretension»
Noun
- Nobles
- Edifice
- Wit
- Gratification
- Supremacy
- Splendour
- Refinement
- Socrates
- Simplicity
- Prelate
- Honesty
- Pretty
- Mankind
- Abbe
- Disposition
- Contrary
- Scruple
- Envy
- Transmitting
- Pride
- Perseverance
- Grandeur
- Personage
- Virtue
- Prejudice
- Expose
- Regency
- Folly
- Authenticity
- Monarch
- Valour
- Generosity
- Piety
- Sentiment
- Suitor
- Firmness
- Crown
- Pretending
- Oratory
- Voltaire
- Tact
- Vassal
- Priesthood
- Beauty
- Negligence
- Contradiction
- Precedence
- Privilege
- Taste
- Quarrel
- Pretext
- Partisan
- Bonaparte
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
PRETENSION, noun. A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
PRETENSION, noun. Pretentiousness.
PRETENSION, verb. To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
PRETENSION, verb. (Construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.
Dictionary definition
PRETENSION, noun. A false or unsupportable quality.
PRETENSION, noun. The advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort".
PRETENSION, noun. The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth).
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.