haughtiness

[haugh·ty]

If you are shy and have a hard time talking to others, people might wrongly interpret your quietness as haughtiness. Haughtiness is thinking a lot of yourself and not much of others.

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The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

Noun
overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors


n.
The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.


Haughtiness

Haugh"ti*ness, n. [For hauteinness. See Haughty.] The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance. Syn. -- Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness. -- Haughtiness, Arrogance, Disdain. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is a disposition to claim for one's self more than is justly due, and enforce it to the utmost; disdain in the exact reverse of condescension toward inferiors, since it expresses and desires others to feel how far below ourselves we consider them. A person is haughty in disposition and demeanor; arrogant in his claims of homage and deference; disdainful even in accepting the deference which his haughtiness leads him arrogantly to exact.

The quality of being haughty; disdain; arrogance.

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Usage Examples

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

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Other Usage Examples

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

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