pretension

noun pretension

• affectation — If you say that someone's attitude or behaviour is an affectation, you disapprove of the fact that it is not genuine or natural, but is intended to impress other people.
• affectedness — assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent.
• airs — affected manners intended to impress others (esp in the phrases give oneself airs, put on airs)
• ambition — If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it.
• arrayal — the act or process of arraying