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Pretension

The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.

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Artificiality 76% connected

The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.

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Claim 76% connected

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

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Ostentation 76% connected

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense.

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Pretend 74% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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Pretend 74% connected

To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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Largeness 92% connected

The quality or state of being large.

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Pretence 92% connected

Alt. of Pretenceless

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Pretense 92% connected

Alt. of Pretence

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Quality noun · 85% connection

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained" - Shakespeare

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Water noun · 85% connection

a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water"

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Wetland noun · 85% connection

a low area where the land is saturated with water

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Convention noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Conventionalism noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Conventionality noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Fertility noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Prolificacy noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Rankness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Richness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Ability noun · 84% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 84% connection

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…

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Adequacy noun · 84% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Air noun · 84% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Appearance noun · 84% connection

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

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Bad noun · 84% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Believability noun · 84% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Fenland noun · 84% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Assert verb · 78% connection

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and lib…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretending, laying, claim, asserting, right.
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Autocrat adjective · 78% connection

An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restricti…

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Color noun · 78% connection

An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, th…

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Counter-evidence noun · 78% connection

(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of thing…

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Counterevidence noun · 78% connection

(philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis.; "People persevere in asserting all sorts of thing…

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Demand verb · 78% connection

To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently o…

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Due noun · 78% connection

Right; just title or claim.

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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Eviction noun · 78% connection

The act or process of evicting; or state of being evicted; the recovery of lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due co…

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Exposure noun · 78% connection

The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to repr…

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Inherit verb · 78% connection

To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose esta…

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Lady noun · 78% connection

A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank th…

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