pretension

Other forms of pretension

plural

pretensions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pretension

What does pretension mean?

pretension means "a false or unsupportable quality". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pretension?

pretension has 3 syllables: pre-ten-sion. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /pɹiˈtɛnʃən/.

What is another word for pretension?

Close synonyms include pretense, pretence, pretentiousness, largeness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pretension a common word?

pretension is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pretension?

7 words rhyme with pretension. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.