名词

1. 自命不凡；虚荣；矫饰
If you say that someone has pretensions, you disapprove of them because they claim or pretend that they are more important than they really are.

2. 声称；标榜；自称
If someone has pretensions to something, they claim to be or do that thing.

1. a false or unsupportable quality

Synonym: pretensepretence

2. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

Synonym: pretentiousnesslargeness

3. the advancing of a claim

e.g. his pretension to the crown
the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort