Pretension
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality, usually with "to". Pretentiousness.
Example sentence: I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
Pretence
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext.
Example sentence: I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.