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Noun contemptuousness has 1 sense

• contemptuousness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the manifestation of scorn and contempt; "every subordinate sensed his contemptuousness and hated him in return"
is a kind of arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness
Derived form adjective contemptuous₁

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contemptuousness

Contempt

N contempt, disdain, scorn, sovereign contempt, despisal, despiciency, despisement, vilipendency, contumely, slight, sneer, spurn, by-word, despect, contemptuousness, scornful eye, smile of contempt, derision, despisedness, contemptuous, disdainful, scornful, withering, contumelious, supercilious, cynical, haughty, bumptious, cavalier, derisive, contemptible, despicable, pitiable, pitiful, despised, downtrodden, unenvied, unrespectable (unworthy), contemptuously, Int, a fig for, bah!, never mind!, away with!, hang it!, fiddlededee!, a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn, I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a.

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