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Overweeningness vs Overweening - What's the difference?

overweeningness | overweening | Derived terms |

Overweeningness is a derived term of overweening.


As nouns the difference between overweeningness and overweening

is that overweeningness is the quality of being overweening while overweening is an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's abilities; presumption, arrogance.

As a adjective overweening is

unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.

As a verb overweening is

(overween).

overweeningness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being overweening.

    • overweening

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Here's an overweening rogue.
    She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she's overweening .
  • *1870 ,
  • *:No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.
  • *1908 , Frederic Bancroft and William A. Dunning,
  • *:The Senate was displaying an overweening hauteur as if it were the government.
  • Exaggerated, excessive
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=20150104 , year= , first= , last= , author=Jonathan Rauch , authorlink= , title=How to Make Men Free , site=NY Times citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=21050215 , passage=The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages. }}

    Derived terms

    * overweeningly * overweeningness

    Noun

    (-)
  • An excessively high opinion of oneself or one's abilities; presumption, arrogance.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Let us suppresse this over-weening .

    • Verb

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