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Effrontery vs Haughtiness - What's the difference?

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Effrontery is a related term of haughtiness.


As nouns the difference between effrontery and haughtiness

is that effrontery is (uncountable) insolent and shameless audacity while haughtiness is the state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.

effrontery

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
  • We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
  • (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
  • Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery .

    References

    * 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572 * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988 *

    haughtiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
  • Usage notes

    * The plural form is rare in modern works.