pretensiones: význam a definice

A specious allegation; a pretext:"the pretension that current political arrangements serve everyone's interests"(Steven Pinker).

A claim to something, such as a skill or profession: a writer's pretensions to journalistic detachment. The advancing of such a claim: tried to prevent his pretensions to the throne.

The unwarranted assumption that one is deserving of merit, or behavior indicative of such an assumption; pretentiousness:"the popular association of wine with snobbery and pretension"(Paul Lukacs). An instance of pretentiousness:"[He] was a likable, boyish man from a middle-class Southern background, though his aristocratic manner and pretensions suggested otherwise"(Mary V. Dearborn).