OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21188

pretension

Meanings (ES + gloss)
pretensión
A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
As a foreign stamp gazette it is nowhere. An article on Stamp Collecting, by J. E. Gray, “reprinted from one of his books,” and a catalogue of stamps constitute its sole attraction…
pretención
Pretentiousness.