toploftinessn.
/tɒpˈlɒftɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌtɑpˈlɔftinᵻs/, /ˌtɑpˈlɑftinᵻs/ The quality of being toplofty; esp. haughtiness, arrogance.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun]
pensifulnessc1450
affectation1548
affection1570
affectedness1622
lady aira1637
fastuousness1649
gentility1650
fastuosity1656
vapouring1656
flatulency1662
hoity-toity1668
pretendingness1701
with an air1701
pretension1706
flatulence1711
uppishness1716
high and mightiness1771
pensieness1825
fine-gentlemanism1831
pretentiousness1838
ambitiousness1845
stuckupishness1853
pretensiveness1859
notion1866
side1870
dog1871
hoity-toityism1881
superiority complex1921
snootiness1932
uppitiness1935
snottiness1973
snoot1984
swag2002
1839 Warder (Dublin) 2 Nov. 2/3 I have just read with unaffected amazement the curt, abrupt, snarling, doggish piece of supercilious toploftiness, absurdity, and impertinence, which appears in Saunders's News-Letter.
1859 Knickerbocker Mar. 328 The General's literary style may be called Corinthian-Gothic, combining the elements of graceful proportion, toploftiness, and branching-out, to a remarkable degree.
1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South (1991) iii. ii. 269 The emergent middle class..was not only imitating the ruling orders but also outdoing those orders in the toploftiness with which they looked down upon the cotton-mill people.
2021 @88ideass 29 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Dec. 2021) Seems like glorying in fatuity and toploftiness in Nigeria is a thing instead of apologizing and clearing the air.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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