snobbery

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

snobbery
    n 1: the trait of condescending to those of lower social status
         [syn: {snobbery}, {snobbism}, {snobbishness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Snobbery \Snob"ber*y\, n.
   The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "snobbery":
      affectation, clannishness, cliquishness, conceit, condescension,
      contemptuousness, disdain, disdainfulness, egotism, exclusiveness,
      haughtiness, hauteur, inflatedness, loftiness, lordliness,
      narcissism, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretension,
      pretentiousness, priggishness, priggism, selectiveness,
      selectivity, selectness, self-admiration, self-importance,
      smugness, sniffiness, snobbiness, snobbishness, snobbism,
      snootiness, snottiness, superciliousness, tufthunting, uppishness,
      vainness, vanity