English > haughtiness: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute| Meaning | overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors. |
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| Synonyms | arrogance, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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| Narrower | condescension, superciliousness, disdainfulness | The trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior |
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| contemptuousness | The manifestation of scorn and contempt / contempt |
| hubris | overbearing pride or presumption |
| imperiousness, domineeringness, overbearingness | The trait of being imperious and overbearing |
| snobbery, snobbism, snobbishness | The trait of condescending to those of lower social status |
| superiority | Displaying a sense of being better than others |
| Broader | pride, superbia | Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) |
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| Spanish | altanería, altiveza, altivez, arrogancia, copete, descuello, desvanecimiento, elación, encumbramiento, endiosamiento, entono, envalentonamiento, fuero, hinchazón, inmodestia, lozanía, orgullo, penacho, pescuezo, prepotencia, pretensión, soberbia, suficiencia, toldo, ufanía, ventolera |
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| Catalan | altivesa, altivitat, arrogància, elació, enfaristolament, estuf, fatuïtat, fums, inflor, ínfules, orgull, protèrvia, supèrbia, urc, vanitat |
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| Adjectives | haughty | having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy |
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