pretension 音标拼音: [prit'ɛnʃən]
n . 自负,骄傲,主张
自负,骄傲,主张
pretension n 1 :
a false or unsupportable quality [
synonym : {
pretension },
{
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 (
behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth ) [
synonym : {
pretentiousness }, {
pretension },
{
largeness }] [
ant : {
unpretentiousness }]
Pretension \
Pre *
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n . [
Cf .
F .
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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 . --
Macaulay .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
1913 Webster ]
This was but an invention and pretension given out by the Spaniards . --
Bacon .
[
1913 Webster ]
Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions . --
L '
Estrange .
[
1913 Webster ]
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
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