Pretension - synonyms

Total 175 synonym synonyms found for pretension.

Barnumism

acting

affectation

affectedness

airs

airs and graces

alibi

ambitions

ambitiousness

apology

appearance

appurtenance

artificiality

aspiration

attitudinizing

authority

bedizenment

big talk

birthright

blind

bluff

bluffing

charade

cheating

claim

cloak

color

coloring

conjugal right

cover story

cover-up

deception

delusion

demand

device

disguise

dissemblance

dissembling

dissimulation

divine right

droit

due

excuse

facade

face

faculty

fakery

faking

false air

false front

false show

falsity

feigned belief

feigning

feint

flashiness

flatulence

flatulency

four-flushing

fraud

front

fulsomeness

garishness

gaudiness

gilt

gloss

grandiloquence

grandioseness

grandiosity

guise

handle

high-flown diction

humbug

humbuggery

hypocrisy

image

imposture

inalienable right

inflatedness

inflation

insincerity

interest

lame excuse

lexiphanicism

locus standi

loftiness

lofty affectations

luridness

magniloquence

make-believe

mannerism

mask

masquerade

mere rhetoric

mere show

meretriciousness

natural right

orotundity

ostensible motive

ostent

ostentation

ostentatious complexity

ostentatiousness

outward show

pageant

platitudinous ponderosity

playacting

polysyllabic profundity

pomposity

pompous prolixity

pompousness

pontification

poor excuse

pose

posing

posture

power

prerogative

prescription

presumptive right

pretending

pretense

pretensions

pretentiousness

pretext

proper claim

property right

prose run mad

protestation

prunes and prisms

public image

public motive

put-off

put-on

putting on airs

refuge

representation

rhetoric

rhetoricalness

right

screen

seeming

semblance

sensationalism

sententiousness

sham

show

showiness

simulacrum

simulation

smoke screen

speciousness

stalking-horse

stiltedness

stratagem

stylishness

subterfuge

swelling utterance

swollen phrase

swollenness

tall talk

title

tortuosity

tortuousness

trick

tumidity

tumidness

turgescence

turgidity

unnaturalness

varnish

veil

vested interest

vested right

window dressing