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How to pronounce pretentiousness:

Synonyms for pretentiousness:

affectation
airs
appearance
arrogance
artifice
assumption
attitude
bumptiousness
conceit
consequence
disdain
flatulence
haughtiness
hauteur
high horse
huffiness
imperiousness
inflation
largeness
loftiness
lordliness
magniloquence
masterfulness
ostentation
ostentatiousness
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Antonyms for pretentiousness:

abasement
admiration
appropriateness
back
bashfulness
carefulness
caution
character
constraint
courtesy
coyness
decency
decorousness
decorum
delicacy
demureness
diffidence
dignity
discreetness
discretion
docility
down-to-earthness
egolessness
existence
fairness
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