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pretensenounor pretence the quality or state of appearing or trying to appear more important or more valuable than is the caseshe seemed to be a very down-to-earth woman who was completely free of pretense affectation, affectedness, grandiosity, inflation, pretension, pretentiousness arrogance, bumptiousness, complacency, conceit, egotism, hauteur, imperiousness, pompousness, presumptuousness, pride, self-aggrandizement, self-assertion, self-assumption, self-conceit, self-consequence, self-glorification, self-importance, self-satisfaction, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanitydisdain, haughtiness, lordliness, snobbery, snobbishness, superciliousness, superiorityconfidence, presumption, self-assurance, self-confidence, surenessboastfulness, braggadocioaggressiveness, assertiveness, audaciousness, boldness, brassiness, cheekiness, cockiness, forwardness, impudence, insolence, rudenessgrandiloquenceflamboyance, flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, glitz, mummery, ostentation, ostentatiousness, show, showiness demureness, down-to-earthness, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modestybashfulness, diffidence, shyness, timiditynaturalness, sincerity a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceiveher display of bravado was just a pretense act, airs, charade, disguise, facade(also façade), front, guise, masquerade, playacting, pose, put-on, semblance, show impersonation, performance, portrayalimage, personaappearance, color, glosscamouflage, cloakaffectation, deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, duplicity, fakery, fraud, guilebetrayal, double cross, faithlessness, falseness, falsity, infidelity, perfidy, treachery, treason, unfaithfulnessexcuse, pretext bluntness, candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, openheartedness, outspokenness, plainspokenness, sincerity, straightforwardnessartlessness, genuineness, naïveté(also naivete or naiveté) an entitlement to somethingthis book on gardening makes no pretense at completeness call, claim, dibs, pretension, right birthright, prerogative, titlefavor, privilegerefusal disclaimer, quitclaim, release, waiver an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claimsthe pretense of that woman in thinking that the other hotel guests should be inconvenienced just for her arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, consequence, haughtiness, hauteur, high horse, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, masterfulness, peremptoriness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretension, pretentiousness, self-consequence, self-importance, superciliousness, superiority, toploftiness authoritativeness, bossiness, bowwow, brag, dominance, high-handednesscondescension, disdain, scornchest-thumping, inflation, self-assertion, side(chiefly British), snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism, snootinessattitude, cheek, cheekiness, impertinence, impudence, saucinessboastfulness, bombast, braggadocio, bravado, strut, swagger, triumphalism, vaingloriousness, vainglorycockiness, complacence, conceit, egoism, egotism, pride, pridefulness, self-assumption, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-content, self-contentment, self-opinion, self-partiality, self-satisfaction, smugness, swelled head, vanitysuperiority complex humility, modesty, unassumingness, unpretentiousness bashfulness, demureness, retiringness, shynessdiffidence, self-distrust, self-doubt, timidity, timidnesslowliness, meekness, mousiness, passiveness, passivity, submissivenessquietness, reserve, reservedness in the 15th century |