HAUTEUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hauteur mean? 

• HAUTEUR (noun)
  The noun HAUTEUR has 1 sense:

1. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

  Familiarity information: HAUTEUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAUTEUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

arrogance; haughtiness; hauteur; high-handedness; lordliness

Hypernyms ("hauteur" is a kind of...):

pride; superbia (unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hauteur"):

condescension; disdainfulness; superciliousness (the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior)

contemptuousness (the manifestation of scorn and contempt)

hubris (overbearing pride or presumption)

domineeringness; imperiousness; overbearingness (the trait of being imperious and overbearing)

superiority (displaying a sense of being better than others)

snobbery; snobbishness; snobbism (the trait of condescending to those of lower social status)

 Context examples 

No pride, no hauteur, and your sister just the same—all sweetness and affability!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I never seemed in his way; he did not take fits of chilling hauteur: when he met me unexpectedly, the encounter seemed welcome; he had always a word and sometimes a smile for me: when summoned by formal invitation to his presence, I was honoured by a cordiality of reception that made me feel I really possessed the power to amuse him, and that these evening conferences were sought as much for his pleasure as for my benefit.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)