parvenuismn.
/pɑːvəˈn(j)uːɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌpɑrvəˈnuˌɪz(ə)m/ The attitudes or practices typical of a parvenu; the condition of being a parvenu.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > quality or condition of
snobbery1843
snobbism1845
snobbishness1846
snobbiness1851
parvenuism1852
parvenudom1872
snobisme1913
1852 C. A. Clinton Writer From Home 28 There is no evidence of the parvenuism which is so common in the commercial towns.
1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 205 A Roman column standing near..satirizes silently their tawdry parvenuism.
1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 2 Jan. 23/3 Parvenuism and vulgar show are continually assumed to be the only aspects of our social problem that our people care to see in dramatic form.
1941 Public Opinion Q. 639/2 Parvenuism and bureaucratic sadism are suggestive parallels.
1971 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 32 571 Bourgeois youth in revulsion castigated its vapidity, its stultifying philistinism, and its brash parvenuism.
1996 Hist. & Memory (Nexis) 8 9 Parvenuism was to her the reprehensible upshot of Jewish assimilationism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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