snobbishnessn.
The character or quality of being snobbish.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery
snobbism1845
snobbishness1846
snobbiness1851
snobbery1903
snobisme1913
elitism1956
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > quality or condition of
snobbery1843
snobbism1845
snobbishness1846
snobbiness1851
parvenuism1852
parvenudom1872
snobisme1913
1846 W. M. Thackeray Snob Papers in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 318 This..shameful caricature of a man which Snobbishness has set up to worship it.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xvi. 274 So the insolent young sham-aristocrat was punished for his snobbishness.
1881 T. H. Huxley Hume v. 106 One of the most curious peculiarities of the dog mind is its inherent snobbishness.
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