Haugh'ti-ness, n.

(haw'-), n. The quality of being haughty; high-mindedness; arrogance. “And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.” Isa. xiii. 11.

Synonyms—Arrogance; disdain; contemptuousness; superciliousness; loftiness.—HAUGHTINESS, ARROGANCE, DISDAIN. Haughtiness denotes the expression of conscious and proud superiority; arrogance is a disposition to claim for one's self more than is justly due, and enforce it to the utmost; disdain is the exact reverse of condescension toward inferiors, since it expresses and desires others to feel how far below ourselves we consider them. A person is haughty in disposition and demeanor; arrogant in his claims of homage and deference; disdainful even in accepting the deference which his haughtiness leads him arrogantly to exact.