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pretension:
- pretensión; vanidad; insolencia; arrogancia; suficiencia; engreimiento; altanería
Wiktionary:
- pretension → pretención, pretensión

English

Detailed Translations for pretension from English to Spanish

pretension:

pretension [the ~] nomen

the pretension (conceitedness)
la pretensión; la vanidad; la insolencia; la arrogancia; la suficiencia; el engreimiento; la altanería
- pretensión [la ~] nomen
- vanidad [la ~] nomen
- insolencia [la ~] nomen
- arrogancia [la ~] nomen
- suficiencia [la ~] nomen
- engreimiento [el ~] nomen
- altanería [la ~] nomen

Translation Matrix for pretension:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
altanería	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; cockiness; conceit; conceitedness; haughtiness; high-spirit; high-spiritedness; impertinence; pride; self complacency; self-complacency; self-conceit; self-elevating; self-satisfaction; vanity
arrogancia	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; cockiness; conceit; conceitedness; haughtiness; presumptuousness; pride; self complacency; self-complacency; self-conceit; self-satisfaction; vanity
engreimiento	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; bombast; cockiness; conceit; conceitedness; haughtiness; presumptuousness; self complacency; self-complacency; self-conceit; self-importance; self-satisfaction
insolencia	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; boldness; boorishness; brutality; cockiness; conceit; conceitedness; discourtesy; forwardness; haughtiness; impertinence; impoliteness; impudence; insolence; presumptuousness; rudeness; self complacency; self-complacency; self-conceit; self-satisfaction
pretensión	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; guise; haughtiness; illusion; presumptuousness; pretence; pretense; pretext; price list; proposal; proposal of marriage; table of charges
suficiencia	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; bombast; cockiness; conceit; conceitedness; contentment; haughtiness; satisfaction; self complacency; self-complacency; self-conceit; self-importance; self-satisfaction
vanidad	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; bombast; flightiness; frivolity; frivolousness; haughtiness; presumptuousness; self-conceit; self-importance; vanity
-	largeness; pretence; pretense; pretentiousness

Synonyms for "pretension":

pretense; pretence; artificiality
claim
pretentiousness; largeness; unnaturalness

Antonyms for "pretension":

unpretentiousness

Related Definitions for "pretension":

a false or unsupportable quality¹
the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)¹
the advancing of a claim¹
- his pretension to the crown¹
- the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort¹

Wiktionary Translations for pretension:

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• pretension	→ pretención	↔ Prätention — Anmaßung, Anspruch, Forderung
• pretension	→ pretensión	↔ Recht — Recht im subjektiven Sinn: Befugnis einer Person, etwas zu tun oder zu unterlassen, die sich aus dem Recht im objektiven Sinn ableiten lässt

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University