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There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.
Gene Kelly

Meaning of "snobbism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SNOBBISM

snobbism  [ˈsnɒbɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SNOBBISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Snobbism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SNOBBISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Snob

A snob is a person who believes in the existence of an equation between status and human worth. The term also refers to a person who believes that some people are inherently inferior to him or her for any one of a variety of reasons, including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, power, physical strength, class, taste, beauty, nationality, fame, extreme success of a family member or friend, etc. Often this form of snobbery reflects the snob's personal attributes. For example, a common snobbery of the affluent is the belief that wealth is either the cause or result of superiority, or both. Both definitions are used as a pejorative.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SNOBBISM


abysm
əˈbɪzəm
Babism
ˈbɑːbɪzəm
cambism
ˈkæmbɪzəm
clubbism
ˈklʌbɪzəm
cubism
ˈkjuːbɪzəm
disyllabism
daɪˈsɪləˌbɪzəm
Hobbism
ˈhɒbɪzəm
mobbism
ˈmɒbɪzəm
monosyllabism
ˌmɒnəʊˈsɪləbɪzəm
nabobism
ˈneɪbɒbɪzəm
Pan-Arabism
ˈærəˌbɪzəm
phobism
ˈfəʊbɪzəm
plumbism
ˈplʌmˌbɪzəm
polysyllabism
ˌpɒlɪˈsɪləbɪzəm
scribism
ˈskraɪbɪzəm
strabism
ˈstreɪbɪzəm
syllabism
ˈsɪləˌbɪzəm
Wahabism
wəˈhɑːbɪzəm
Wahhabism
wəˈhɑːbɪzəm
yobbism
ˈjɒbɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SNOBBISM

snob
snobbery
snobbily
snobbish
snobbishly
snobbishness
snobbocracy
snobby
snobling
snobocracy
snobographer
snobography
SNOBOL
snod
snoek
snoep
snog
snogged
snogging
snollygoster

WORDS THAT END LIKE SNOBBISM

activism
autism
Buddhism
capitalism
criticism
feminism
hedonism
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journalism
Judaism
mechanism
metabolism
militarism
organism
prism
professionalism
racism
realism
terrorism
tourism

Synonyms and antonyms of snobbism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «snobbism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SNOBBISM

Find out the translation of snobbism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of snobbism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «snobbism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

势利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esnobismo
570 millions of speakers

English

snobbism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

snobbism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

snobbism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

снобизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esnobismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

snobbism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

snobisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Snobbism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Snobismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

snobbism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

snobbism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Snobbism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

snobbism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

snobbism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झुंडशाही
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

snobbism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

snobismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

snobizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

снобізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

snobism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

snobbism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

snobisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

snobbism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

snobbism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of snobbism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SNOBBISM»

The term «snobbism» is used very little and occupies the 151.725 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SNOBBISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about snobbism

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QUOTES WITH «SNOBBISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word snobbism.
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Gene Kelly
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SNOBBISM»

Discover the use of snobbism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to snobbism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Famous Trademarks, Snobbism and Anti-dilution: An Economic ...
The dissertation has normative and descriptive implications with regard to three distinct bodies of law: price discrimination, trademark anti-dilution and trade-name law.
John Shahar Dillbary, 2007
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Contemporaries and Snobs
But this remains a subordinate snobbism, the signs of growth of shame and of decay. The whole snobbism by which poetry first came to terms with society is a gross snobbism still obtaining where poetry and society have not yet caught up with ...
Laura Riding, Laura Heffernan, Jane Malcolm, 2014
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Art and the Market: Roger Fry on Commerce in Art
The artist, in whose breast the divine flame is kindled, finds himself confronted, then, with these two religions of culture and snobbism. But he is also aware of the presence of a vast inert mass, the great body of Philistines. These are the ...
Roger Eliot Fry, Craufurd D. W. Goodwin, 1999
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Russia Gets the Blues: Music, Culture, and Community in ...
In this respect there was definitely an element of snobbism. Snobbism, simply because blues was Western music. Some people were trying in this way to show that they were — and I use the English word — "cool." But snobbism has no place  ...
Michael E. Urban, 2004
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The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000
The triangular structure is no less obvious in social snobbism than it is in lovejealousy. The snob is also an imitator. He slavishly copies the person whose birth, fortune, or stylishness he envies. Proustian snobbism could be defined as a  ...
Dorothy J. Hale, 2009
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René Girard's Mimetic Theory
Snobbism Girard's precise insight into the strange paradox of anti-mimetic mimesis is based on readings of the novelists mentioned above whose knowledge he prefers to sociological classifications. Proust's treatment of the phenomenon of ...
Wolfgang Palaver, 2013
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LIFE
SNOBS. CONTINUED WE have noted as we went along that almost every kind of snobbism has its opposite: the Moral Snob contrasts with the Sensual Snob, the Manual Dexterity Snob with the All-Thumbs Snob; the Efficiency Snob with the ...
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British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch ...
(but such a method of statement, it should be remembered, is not the fairest for all purposes), the philosophy of Dickens may be defined as Anti- Puritanism, whereas that of Thackeray may be defined as Anti-Snobbism. Whatever practice  ...
David Masson, 1875
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Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals: Babbitt Jr. Vs. the ...
All I ask is to satisfy my two sincerest emotions: resentment and snobbism." "You can't mean that, Gaylord! Not even after two bottles. You're only impishly joking, of course, when you speak of resentment and snobbism as if they were — well, ...
Peter Viereck, 1965
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Desire in René Girard and Jesus
EXCURSUS ON SNOBBISM In René Girard's Deceit, Desire, and the Novel we find a phenomenology of snobbism. To begin, the snob is involved with triangular desire where he desires the perfection of his model and where the model is the ...
William L. Newell, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SNOBBISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term snobbism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Allen Afield: Electronic bicycles are on the way
... I wouldn't be caught dead on an electric bicycle, so this column may surprise friends who know about my snobbism. The topic does fascinate me, though, and ... «Press Herald, May 15»
2
Dunne on Wine: Outdated notions
Pilgrims are apt to mistake enthusiasm or preference for a particular style of wine or a particular region as snobbism when all it reveals is experience, exploration ... «Sacramento Bee, Feb 15»
3
Mellor, Mitchell and Thornberry - snobs who expose the …
It was, according to both political rivals and her party's leader, Ed Miliband, a clear case of snobbism. The lady was looking down on the working class - in this ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
4
Olle Jönssons attack mot TV4: Är snobbiga
Tyvärr tror jag det handlar om snobbism. De hade fått klart mycket fler tittare och en äldre publik om de haft med schlager- och dansbandsartister, säger han. «Expressen, Nov 14»
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Wine List Snobbism: Real or Made Up by “Old Guys”?
Last week, my good friend, W. Blake Gray, penned an article in which he accused some folks of (a) being old and (b) not liking wine lists that are filled with ... «Palate Pres, Sep 14»
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Gene Kelly Quotes
It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy." "The finest all-around performer we ever ... «Legacy.com, Aug 14»
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O, Captain, My Captain!
Personally when I hear this I get irritated at what seems a cynical taste in cinema, one that likes the so-called-intellectual films out of snobbism rather than ... «Varsity Online, Aug 14»
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Lasse Halström Explores the Sensuality of Food in 'The Hundred …
But the universal theme is that food is the one international language that transcends bigotry, snobbism, prejudice and cultural and religious differences of every ... «New York Observer, Aug 14»
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Russia will work with whoever elected in Ukraine - Putin
Meanwhile, Putin accused Western authorities in snobbism and unwillingness to open dialogue with Russia. Russia is tired of how the West discusses Ukraine's ... «RT, May 14»
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Real estate scion Trammell S. Crow digs deep for Earth Day Texas
“All of my children are excellent, hardworking, and they've inherited from their father the regrettable trait of reverse snobbism,” he says, clearly finding this ... «Dallas Morning News, Apr 14»

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