arrogance
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
I hate not you for her proud arrogance. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Haughtiness; hauteur; assumption; lordliness;
presumption; pride; disdain; insolence; conceit;
conceitedness. See {Haughtiness}.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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