pretension

Noun

• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

• the advancing of a claim
  • his pretension to the crown
    
  • the town still puts forward pretensions as a famous resort
    

• a false or unsupportable quality

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  pretentiousness , largeness , pretense , pretence