superciliousness
Looking down behavior
Superciliousness is an attitude of haughty disdain—the manner of someone who looks down on others as inferior.
The word carries a sense of affected superiority, as if the person's eyebrows are perpetually raised in contempt: His superciliousness made him impossible to work with.
Where arrogance asserts dominance, superciliousness dismisses others as beneath notice.
Excessive self-importance
- smugnessExcessive pride in oneself
- self-importanceExaggerated sense of significance
- snobberyPretentious social superiority
- superiorityHigher rank or quality
vanity · egotism · hubris · presumption · overconfidence · pride · conceit · self-satisfaction
Demeaning air of superiority
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
- imperiousnessDomineering, superior demeanor
- aloofnessEmotional unavailability, standoffishness
loftiness · lordliness · snootiness · high-handedness · overbearingness · patronizing · sneering · nose-in-the-air
Scornful disregard
- scornHostile dismissive feeling
- derisionContemptuous mockery
- disparagementCriticism meant to diminish
- contemptuousnessOpen disrespect toward others
disrespect · mockery · belittlement · scoffing · sneering · dismissiveness · disdainfulness · condemnation
arrogance
Excessive self-importance
- smugnessExcessive pride in oneself
- self-importanceExaggerated sense of significance
- snobberyPretentious social superiority
superiority · vanity · egotism · hubris · presumption · overconfidence · pride · conceit · self-satisfaction · elitism
condescension
Demeaning air of superiority
- haughtinessDisdainful sense of superiority
- pomposityExaggerated sense of importance
- imperiousnessDomineering, superior demeanor
aloofness · loftiness · lordliness · snootiness · high-handedness · overbearingness · patronizing · sneering · nose-in-the-air · stiffness
disdain
Scornful disregard
- scornHostile dismissive feeling
- derisionContemptuous mockery
- disparagementCriticism meant to diminish
contemptuousness · disrespect · mockery · belittlement · scoffing · sneering · dismissiveness · disdainfulness · condemnation · deprecation
superciliousnesshumility
Freedom from arrogance
modesty · humbleness · unpretentiousness · meekness · lowliness
superciliousnesssubmissiveness
Disposition to obey others
diffidence · shyness · bashfulness · timidity · timidness