pretensión1

pretensión1
1 = pretence [pretense, -USA], pretentiousness.
Ex. Automated cataloging support systems, with any pretense to sophistication, did not begin to appear until the inception of the LC/MARC II (Library of Congress/Machine-Readable Cataloging) project in late 1967.
Ex. His publications attacked the pretentiousness and fallibility of the world of academia.
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* falsa pretensión = false pretence.

Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.

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  • pretension — pretension1 /pri ten sheuhn/, n. 1. the laying of a claim to something. 2. a claim or title to something. 3. Often, pretensions. a claim made, esp. indirectly or by implication, to some quality, merit, or the like: They laughed at my pretensions… …   Universalium

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