Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
highbrow .
Etymologies
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highbrow + -ness
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Examples
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Of course I haven’t read Tolstoy in the original Russian and am sorry to say I was unaware that speaking Russian was necessary to form an opinion about the highbrowness of those works.
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