hauteur

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

hauteur
    n 1: overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward
         inferiors [syn: {arrogance}, {haughtiness}, {hauteur},
         {high-handedness}, {lordliness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Hauteur \Hau`teur"\ (h[=o]`t[~e]r"), n. [F., fr. haut high. See
   {Haughty}.]
   Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

65 Moby Thesaurus words for "hauteur":
      Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, airs, altitude, arrogance,
      arrogantness, assumption of superiority, ceiling, clannishness,
      cliquishness, condescendence, condescension, contempt,
      contemptuousness, contumely, despite, disdain, disdainfulness,
      disparagement, domineering, domineeringness, elevation, eminence,
      exaltation, exclusiveness, haughtiness, haughty airs, height,
      heighth, high horse, highness, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity,
      insult, loftiness, morgue, overbearing pride, overbearingness,
      overweening pride, patronization, patronizing,
      patronizing attitude, perpendicular distance, pride, prominence,
      proudness, purse-pride, ridicule, scorn, scornfulness, side,
      sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness,
      sovereign contempt, stature, stiff-necked pride, sublimity,
      superbia, superciliousness, tallness, toploftiness, uppishness,
      uppityness

[email protected]