arrogance.

An overconfident sense of one’s importance or abilities, expressed in disregard for others.

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Words that belong together

• display arrogance
• intellectual arrogance

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His arrogance survived the defeat more readily than his authority did.

She heard arrogance in the certainty with which he dismissed an unfamiliar name.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.