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CLIQUISHNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cliquishness mean?
• CLIQUISHNESS (noun)
The noun CLIQUISHNESS has 1 sense:
1. tendency to associate with only a select group
Familiarity information: CLIQUISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tendency to associate with only a select group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
clannishness; cliquishness; exclusiveness
Hypernyms ("cliquishness" is a kind of...):
snobbery; snobbishness; snobbism (the trait of condescending to those of lower social status)
Derivation:
cliquish (befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior)
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