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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   pretension

   • IPA[prēˈten(t)SH(ə)n]

   美式

   • n.
     a claim or assertion of a claim to something；an aspiration or claim to a certain status or quality

   • noun: pretension, plural noun: pretensions

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a claim or assertion of a claim to something we cannot tolerate pretension to infallibility their pretensions to culture 同義詞 aspiration, claim, assertion, pretense, profession, ... 更多purporting
   • ▪ an aspiration or claim to a certain status or quality another aging rocker with literary pretensions
   • 2. the use of affectation to impress; ostentatiousness he spoke simply, without pretension 同義詞 pretentiousness, affectation, affectedness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, ... 更多artificiality, attitudinizing, airs, posing, posturing, showing off, hypocrisy, snobbery, show, flashiness, pomposity, pompousness, floweriness, grandiosity, grandness, grandiloquence, magniloquence, elaborateness, extravagance, heroics, flamboyance, ornateness, bombast, turgidity, rhetoric, pedantry, informalla-di-da, side, guyver, rarefustian, flatulence