Usually means: Assuming superiority, often without justification.
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  1. pretension: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pretension, pretension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pretension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pretension: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pretension: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pretension, pretension: Wordnik
  7. pretension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pretension: Wiktionary
  9. pretension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pretension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pretension: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pretension, pretension: Dictionary.com
  13. pretension: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Pretension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pretension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pretension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pretension: Rhymezone
  18. Pretension: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pretension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pretension: Free Dictionary
  21. pretension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pretension: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. pretension: Legal dictionary

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  1. Pretension: Encyclopedia

(Note: See pretensioning as well.)

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

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