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  • noun The state or condition of being highbrow.

Etymologies

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highbrow +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • 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.

    Matthew Yglesias » More Sopranos Blogging 2007

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