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Definition of Snobbism
1. Noun. The trait of condescending to those of lower social status.
Generic synonyms: Arrogance, Haughtiness, Hauteur, High-handedness, Lordliness
Specialized synonyms: Clannishness, Cliquishness, Exclusiveness
Derivative terms: Snobbish
Definition of Snobbism
1. n. Snobbery.
Definition of Snobbism
1. Noun. A snobbish attitude, particularly in relation to art or high culture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snobbism
1. snobbery [n -S] - See also: snobbery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snobbism
Literary usage of Snobbism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History by David Masson (1859)
"Anti-snobbism, it may indeed be admitted, is not a perfect summary of the whole
decalogue ; but, in the present day, and especially in and about London, ..."
2. British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History by David Masson (1859)
"Anti-snobbism, it may indeed be admitted, is not a perfect summary of the whole
decalogue; but, in the present day, and especially in and about London, ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"Moreover even if it were snobbism, it means something that the ... that will
succeed is religious snobbism. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"... accounting for the hereditary taint of snobbism which is probably destined to
characterise in an eminent degree the popula- tio» of the British Isles. ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"Anti- snobbism was his doctrine as applied to many particulars of our own and of
recent times—Victorian or Georgian. But he took a wider range than that, ..."
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