1) Affectation 2) Air 3) Artiness 4) Dueness 5) Ostentation 6) Pretence 1) Affectation 2) Artificiality 3) Brazenness 4) Claim or title to 5) Claim or title to something 6) Display 7) Flamboyance 8) Pretence 9) Pretense 10) Pretentiousness 11) Showiness 12) The advancing of a claim 
• (n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title. • (n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
Pretension is used in tensile tests and is a user defined force that is applied to the specimen before any measurements begin. 
Pre·ten'sion noun [ Confer French prétention . See Pretend , Tension .] 1. The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title. « The arrogant pretensions of Glengarry contributed to protract the discussion.» Macaulay. ...
[n] - the advancing of a claim 2. [n] - a false or unsupportable quality
pretense, pretension 1. A claim, especially an unsupported one, as to some distinction or accomplishment; pretension. 2. A false claim or profession. 3. A false show of something.
pretense noun a false or unsupportable quality