Definitions for pretension

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pretension pre·ten·sion

Spelling: [pri-ten-shuh n]

IPA: /prɪˈtɛn ʃən/

Pretension is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 801 anagrams from letters in pretension (eeinnoprst).

Definitions for pretension

noun

1. the laying of a claim to something.
2. a claim or title to something.
3. Often, pretensions. a claim made, especially indirectly or by implication, to some quality, merit, or the like:
4. a claim to dignity, importance, or merit.
5. pretentiousness.
6. the act of pretending or alleging.
7. an allegation of doubtful veracity.
8. a pretext.

verb (used with object)

1. (in prestressed-concrete construction) to apply tension to (reinforcing strands) before the concrete is poured. Compare posttension (def 1).
2. to make (a concrete member) with pretensioned reinforcement.

Origin of pretension

First recorded in 1590-1600, pretension is from the Medieval Latin word praetēnsiōn- (stem of praetēnsiō). See pretense, -ion

Examples for pretension

People loved Julia because she was very straightforward, and she didn't put on any airs, or have any pretension.

The Utopian ideas which I have expressed have in no way the pretension to be new.

Humor, after all, is a social corrective against arrogance, ignorance and pretension.

I speak generally, and not with any pretension to exactness.

Where the pretension is higher, the test may justly be more severe.

He has pretension; he wishes and attempts things beyond his force.

Trekkies are defensive about the minutiae of their sacred source material, sometimes to the point of pretension.

But it's also because, from the APF's point of view, pretension is bad business.

“So corrupt, evil, vile American liberal culture, such United States pretension,” as Pygmy reports.

To folly, to pretension, to presumption, he showed but slight forbearance.