— highbrowism , n.
/huy"brow'/ , n.
1. a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
2. a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.
3. the crestfish.
adj.
4. Also, highbrowed . of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a highbrow.
[ 1895-1900; HIGH + BROW ]
Syn. 4. intellectual, scholarly, cultured; bookish, snobbish, pseudointellectual.