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HAUGHTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does haughtiness mean? 

HAUGHTINESS (noun)
  The noun HAUGHTINESS has 1 sense:

1. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiorsplay

  Familiarity information: HAUGHTINESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HAUGHTINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

arrogance; haughtiness; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness

Hypernyms ("haughtiness" is a kind of...):

pride; superbia (unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "haughtiness"):

condescension; disdainfulness; superciliousness (the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior)

contemptuousness (the manifestation of scorn and contempt)

hubris (overbearing pride or presumption)

domineeringness; imperiousness; overbearingness (the trait of being imperious and overbearing)

superiority (displaying a sense of being better than others)

snobbery; snobbishness; snobbism (the trait of condescending to those of lower social status)

Derivation:

haughty (having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy)


 Context examples 


Isabella, on hearing the particulars of the visit, gave a different explanation: It was all pride, pride, insufferable haughtiness and pride!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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