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Ostentation vs Pretensions - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ostentation and pretensions

is that ostentation is ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause while pretensions is plural of lang=en.

ostentation

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.
  • (obsolete) A show or spectacle.
  • * 1599 ,
    • Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
    And publish it that she is dead indeed:
    Maintain a mourning ostentation ;

    Synonyms

    * parade * pageantry * show * showiness * pomp * pompousness * vaunting * boasting * See also

    Related terms

    * ostentatious * ostensive * ostensible

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    pretensions

    English

    Noun

    (head)