Synonyms of pretension

1 Syllable

airs, claim, claims, boast, splash, front, fake, show, feint

2 Syllables

conceit, hubris, proudness, phony, arrayal, smugness, queerness, oddness, display, showboat, put-on, showoff

3 Syllables

pragmatism, mannerisms, vanities, snobbishness, snootiness, lordliness, mannerism, charade, vainglory, loftiness, fakery, snobbery, disguising, ambition, panoply, ambitions, boastfulness, self-worship, bravado, vanity, disguise, bookishness, flamboyance, garishness, pompousness, showiness, pedantries, pedantry

4 Syllables

positure, affectations, pridefulness, arrogance, hypocrisy, highhandedness, ostentation, imposture, grandioseness, vaingloriousness, high-handedness, imperiousness, conceitedness, big-headedness, superbity, ostentations, window-dressing, pomposity, pretentiousness, affectation, affectedness

5 Syllables

self-importance, exaggerations, overbearingness, exaggeration, overbearance, superciliousness, self-exaltation, rodomontade, dissimulation