pretension

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Conceitos

pretensão

reivindicação

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

prétention

pretensión

pretesa

αξίωση

pretentie

pretención

aanmatiging

aanspraak

Einbildung

Anspruch

prétension

Prätention

Anmaßung

pretensione

gösteriş

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: pretencioun

In summary

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