pretension

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
2. (countable, uncountable) Pretentiousness.

Verb

1. To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.
2. To apply tension to reinforcing strands before concrete is poured in.

Conceptes

aparença

pretensió

simulació

fingiment

Sinònims

claim

aspiration

demand

affectation

pretence

ambition

assumption

assertion

pretense

pretentiousness

largeness

arrogance

dissimulation

hypocrisy

conceited

ostentation

contention

pomposity

hubris

impulse

impute

inclination

insistence

intention

law suit

make believe

mind

plaint

position

preloading

presumption

pretext

proposition

proud of

purpose

quackery

request

requirement

requirements

responsible

sham

simulation

snobbery

snootiness

stand

striving

supposition

treachery

vaunt

view

Traduccions

prétention

pretensión

pretesa

pretensão

pretentie

αξίωση

aanspraak

aanmatiging

pretención

prétension

Einbildung

pretensione

Anmaßung

Prätention

Anspruch

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: pretencioun

In summary

From Middle English pretencioun, pretensioun, from Medieval Latin prētēnsiō.