n. 25B6; noun
the author has no pretension to exhaustive coverage : ASPIRATION, claim, assertion, pretence, profession.
she spoke without pretension : PRETENTIOUSNESS, affectation, affectedness, ostentation, ostentatiousness, artificiality, airs, posing, posturing, show, flashiness; pomposity, pompousness, grandiosity, grandiloquence, magniloquence.