Synonyms of the word

pretension

• n. A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
• n. Pretentiousness.
• v. To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
• v. (construction) To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.

artificiality

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being artificial or produced unnaturally.
• n. (countable) Something artificial.

claim

• n. A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
• n. A new statement of something you believed to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified…
• n. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush).
• n. (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
• v. To demand ownership of.
• v. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
• v. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
• v. (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
• v. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
• v. (archaic) To proclaim.
• v. (archaic) To call or name.

largeness

• n. (obsolete) Liberality; generosity.
• n. The property of being physically large.
• n. The quality of not being limited or constrained; having great scope.

pretence

• n. (British spelling) An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
• n. (obsolete) Intention; design.

pretense

• n. (US) A false or hypocritical profession.
• n. Intention or purpose not real but professed.
• n. An unsupported claim made or implied.
• n. An insincere attempt to reach a specific condition or quality.

pretentiousness

• n. The quality of being pretentious.

unnaturalness

• n. The state of being unnatural.