pretension

1. a false or unsupportable quality

Similar word(s): pretence, pretense

Definition categories: attribute, artificiality

2. the advancing of a claim

- his pretension to the crown

- the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort

Definition categories: communication, claim

3. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

Definition categories: attribute, unnaturalness

1. To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.

2. (Construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.

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