Arrogance \Ar"ro*gance\, n. [F., fr. L. arrogantia, fr.
arrogans. See Arrogant.]
The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an
overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in
exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or
which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an
undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness;
haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
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I hate not you for her proud arrogance. --Shak.
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Syn: Haughtiness; hauteur; assumption; lordliness;
presumption; pride; disdain; insolence; conceit;
conceitedness. See Haughtiness.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
arrogance
n : overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward
inferiors [syn: haughtiness, hauteur, highhandedness,
lordliness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrogance":
airs, assurance, assuredness, audacity, belief, bluster,
boastfulness, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness,
brassiness, bravado, brazenness, bumptiousness, certitude,
cheekiness, clannishness, cliquishness, cockiness, cocksureness,
conceit, confidence, confidentness, contempt, contemptuousness,
contumely, conviction, courage, daring, daringness, defial,
defiance, defying, derision, despite, disdain, disdainfulness,
disparagement, disregard, effrontery, egotism, exclusiveness, face,
faith, gall, hardihood, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, impertinence,
impudence, independence, insolence, insult, loftiness, morgue,
nerve, obtrusiveness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening,
overweeningness, pardonable pride, pertness, poise, pomposity,
pompousness, positiveness, presumption, presumptuousness,
pretension, pretentiousness, pride, pridefulness, procacity,
proudness, purse-pride, pushiness, ridicule, sauciness, scorn,
scornfulness, security, self-assertion, self-assurance,
self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-importance,
self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, settled belief,
side, sniffiness, snobbery, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness,
sovereign contempt, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness,
subjective certainty, superciliousness, sureness, surety,
toploftiness, trust, uppishness, uppityness, vanity
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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