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Summary

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pretension:
- prétention; vanité; fatuité
Wiktionary:
- pretension → prétension, prétention
- pretension → prétention, droit, faculté

English

Detailed Translations for pretension from English to French

pretension:

pretension [the ~] nom

the pretension (conceitedness)
la prétention; la vanité; la fatuité
- prétention [la ~] nom
- vanité [la ~] nom
- fatuité [la ~] nom

Translation Matrix for pretension:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
fatuité	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; haughtiness; presumptuousness
prétention	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; being supercilious; bombast; cockiness; conceit; conceitedness; flatulence; grandiloquence; haughtiness; impertinence; pomposity; presumptuousness; self-conceit; self-elevating; self-importance; superiority
vanité	conceitedness; pretension	arrogance; barrenness; flightiness; frivolity; frivolousness; fruitlessness; haughtiness; infertility; presumptuousness; pride; 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:

pretension

noun

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- pretension → prétension

pretension

noun

droit que l’on a, ou que l’on croire avoir, de prétendre, d’aspirer à une chose ; espérance ; dessein ; vue.
- prétention → pretension; pretention; pretence; pretense

Cross Translation:

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

French

Detailed Translations for pretension from French to English

pretension: ^{(*Using Word and Sentence Splitter)}

pré: pasture; grass-land; meadow-land
tension: burden; stress; strain; tension; tightness; tenseness
âpre: fierce; exasperated; bitter; cutting; biting; grim; sullen; embittered; dour; spicy; piquant; spiced; bare; offensive; barren; suppressed; offending; insulting; scornful; derisive; injurious; sneering; sourly
père: father; dad; daddy

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