Pretentious vs Unpretending - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between pretentious and unpretending

is that pretentious is marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction while unpretending is unpretentious, real, genuine.

(en adjective)

Marked by an unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.

Their song titles are pretentious in the context of their basic lyrics.

Ostentatious; intended to impress others.

Her dress was obviously more pretentious than comfortable.

* poseur * See also

* unpretentious

* pretentiously * pretentiousness

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(en adjective)

unpretentious, real, genuine

* Charles Dickens, Bleak House

Perhaps our wedding might even be as unpretending as her own, and I might not find it necessary to say anything about it until it was over.

* unpretendingly * unpretendingness