0 a claim or belief that you can succeed or that you are important or have serious value:
1 the appearance of being more important or more serious than there is reason for:
Are their artistic pretensions a reflection of their gentle connections, or are there other significant differentials at work?
Inevitably individuals who believed their claims for honours were as strong as those recently ennobled came forward to press their own pretensions.
Lacking in theoretical pretensions, it offers an arsenal of information permitting students to enrich paradigms and other abstractions with real-life events.
Not only that, but inescapeable processes of globalization, a nice buzz word now in academe, make such objective pretensions increasingly anachronistic.
Feminist readers attacked its pretension and conservative readers deplored its moral turpitude, while the literati viewed it simply as bad writing.
Obviously, parliaments were ripe occasions for viceroys with monarchical pretensions to play out their fantasies.
No pretensions, though his scholarship was seemingly unlimited.
This characteristic is very interesting in our case, because the used wires will not need pretension to be actuated.
