Hauteur

Noun
hauteur


 * 1) haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness
 * 2) * 1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
 * [...] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
 * [...] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.

Synonyms for Hauteur
haughtiness, arrogance, pomp, pride, loftiness, disdain, scorn, sauciness, superciliousness, contempt.

Antonyms for Hauteur
humility, lowliness, condescension, plainness, humbleness.

Thesaurus
Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, airs, altitude, arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, ceiling, clannishness, cliquishness, condescendence, condescension, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, despite, disdain, disdainfulness, disparagement, domineering, domineeringness, elevation, eminence, exaltation, exclusiveness, haughtiness, haughty airs, height, heighth, high horse, highness, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, insult, loftiness, morgue, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overweening pride, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, perpendicular distance, pride, prominence, proudness, purse-pride, ridicule, scorn, scornfulness, side, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, sovereign contempt, stature, stiff-necked pride, sublimity, superbia, superciliousness, tallness, toploftiness, uppishness, uppityness

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) height, altitude
 * La hauteur du Mont Everest est de 8 848 mètres.
 * 1) arrogance
 * 2)  altitude
 * La hauteur d'un parallélogramme est perpendiculaire à sa base.

Related terms

 * haut