- pretension, pretense, pretence - a false or unsupportable quality
--1 is a kind of artificiality
- pretension - the advancing of a claim; "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
--2 is a kind of claim
Derived form: verb pretend3 - pretentiousness, pretension - the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
--3 is a kind of unnaturalness
--3 has particulars: ostentation