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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity;
[syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]

2. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth);
[syn: pretentiousness, pretension, largeness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pretentious \Pre*ten"tious\, a. [Cf. F. pr['e]tentieux. See
   Pretend.]
   Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is
   one's; presuming; assuming. -- Pre*ten"tious*ly, adv. --
   Pre*ten"tious*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pretentiousness
    n 1: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and
         puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation,
         ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness,
         pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]
    2: the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in
       such a manner as to create a false appearance of great
       importance or worth) [syn: pretentiousness, pretension,
       largeness] [ant: unpretentiousness]