Synonyms for haughtiness
- noun
Definitions
- n. 1
The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
Forms
- Plural
- haughtinesses → arrogances, hauteurs, prides, lordlinesses…
Choose the right word
Haughtiness thinks highly of itself and poorly of others. Pride is an absorbing sense of one's own greatness; haughtiness feels one's own superiority to others; disdain sees contemptuously the inferiority of others to oneself.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- pride Italians take pride in their dress and appearance.
- arrogance Tom's boss's behaviour smacked of crass arrogance.
- disdain Tom didn't notice the look of disdain on Mary's face.
By length
- 5 letters
- pride1
- 7 letters
- disdain2, hauteur
- 9 letters
- arrogance3
- 10 letters
- lordliness
- 13 letters
- imperiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (disdain2 = 2 syllables).