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• n  a false or unsupportable quality
• n  the advancing of a claim
  his pretension to the crown
  the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort
• n  the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

• He disliked pretension, preferring simplicity and concreteness, and the philosophic German style may have repelled him.
• Along the dusty streets the tin-roofed shops of Armenian, Greek and East Indian traders were boarded up, almost all the houses of any pretension deserted.
• Porn is a commodity, with no more pretension to art than the most mindless kiddie show.

• pretense
• pretence
• pretentiousness
• largeness

• unpretentiousness

News & Articles

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• 2013 Chevrolet Spark 2LT review notes: Split on the Spark
  ASSOCIATE WEST COAST EDITOR BLAKE Z. RONG: Underneath the bright colors, youthful pretension and eager-mouse styling of the
  July 2, 2013 - AutoWeek

Quotes

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• the Apostle Paul in BP News
  A few years later Paul wrote, "We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ" (2 Corinthians 10:5).
• Michiko Kakutani in New York Times
  Last week in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that "the novel's gushing fans, however, seem to have mistaken perversity for daring, pretension for ambition, an odious stunt for contrarian cleverness," adding that the book was...
• Max Cavalera in Metal Underground
  We didn't want big names,Max says. "It was about me and Iggor finding ourselves. This is about the music. We found cool musicians without pretension, who wanted to go into the studio and just kick ass."