pretension

pretension is a 10-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. a false or unsupportable quality

   Synonyms: pretence, pretense

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

   Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness

5. noun. the advancing of a claim

   "his pretension to the crown"

   "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"

Synonyms

pretence, pretense, largeness, pretentiousness

Common word forms

pretensions, pretensional, pretensionless

Words from these letters

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