snootinessn.
The character or quality of being snooty; conceitedness, superciliousness.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun]
pensifulnessc1450
affectation1548
affection1570
affectedness1622
lady aira1637
fastuousness1649
gentility1650
fastuosity1656
vapouring1656
flatulency1662
hoity-toity1668
pretendingness1701
with an air1701
pretension1706
flatulence1711
uppishness1716
high and mightiness1771
pensieness1825
fine-gentlemanism1831
pretentiousness1838
ambitiousness1845
stuckupishness1853
pretensiveness1859
notion1866
side1870
dog1871
hoity-toityism1881
superiority complex1921
snootiness1932
uppitiness1935
snottiness1973
snoot1984
swag2002
1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan iii. 124 She said it served Helen right that she had gotten a crush on a guy like Weary, because Weary would take some of the snootiness out of her.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 2 May 22 They in turn mistook our English reserve for ‘snootiness’.
1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 155 One or two tourists I met were annoyed about what they described as this ‘snootiness’.
1977 Sunday Times 15 May 40/1 All these books steer with tact between the contrasting risks of sycophancy and snootiness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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