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1 pretentiousness
[priténšəsnis]nounpretencioznost, zahtevnost; prevzetnost, nadutost, predrznost
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pretentiousness — pretentious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. DERIVATIVES pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun … English terms dictionary
pretentiousness — noun see pretentious … New Collegiate Dictionary
pretentiousness — noun The quality of being pretentious … Wiktionary
pretentiousness — noun 1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity • Syn: ↑ostentation, ↑ostentatiousness, ↑pomposity, ↑pompousness, ↑puffiness, ↑splashiness, ↑inflation … Useful english dictionary
pretentiousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Boastful self importance or display: grandioseness, grandiosity, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretension. See PLAIN … English dictionary for students
pretentious — adjective Etymology: French prétentieux, from prétention pretension, from Medieval Latin pretention , pretentio, from Latin praetendere Date: 1832 1. characterized by pretension: as a. making usually unjustified or excessive claims (as of value… … New Collegiate Dictionary
pretentious — adjective attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. Derivatives pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun Origin C19: from Fr. prétentieux, from prétention (see pretension) … English new terms dictionary
pretentious — adjective trying to seem more important, clever etc than you really are: It s pretentious of him to keep the complete works of Proust on full display. | a pretentious movie opposite unpretentious pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun (U) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
pretentious — /prəˈtɛnʃəs / (say pruh tenshuhs) adjective 1. full of pretension. 2. characterised by assumption of dignity or importance. 3. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious. {Latin praetenti(o) pretension + ous} –pretentiously, adverb… …
pretentious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. DERIVATIVES pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun … English terms dictionary
pretentiously — pretentious ► ADJECTIVE ▪ attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed. DERIVATIVES pretentiously adverb pretentiousness noun … English terms dictionary