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UPPITYNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uppityness mean?
• UPPITYNESS (noun)
The noun UPPITYNESS has 1 sense:
1. assumption of airs beyond one's station
Familiarity information: UPPITYNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assumption of airs beyond one's station
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
uppishness; uppityness
Hypernyms ("uppityness" is a kind of...):
assumption; effrontery; presumption; presumptuousness (audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to)
Derivation:
uppity (presumptuously arrogant)
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