Origin: Latin suffix -sion
Pretension has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
a false or unsupportable quality
the advancing of a claim
"his pretension to the crown"
"the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort"
the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality.
To apply tension to an object before some other event or process.