pretension in WordNet English dictionary

1. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
   pretentiousness  pretension  largeness 
   
2. a false or unsupportable quality
   pretension  pretense  pretence 
   
3. the advancing of a claim
   "his pretension to the crown"; "the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
   pretension