Home › Words › H › highbrowismhighbrowismhighbrowism means highbrow attitudes and policies generally.EtymologyFrom highbrow + -ism.nounhighbrow attitudes and policies generallyDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.lowbrowism 75% match — lowbrow attitudes and policies generally vs highbrowism →highbrowness 73% match — The state or condition of being highbrow. vs highbrowism →middlebrowism 66% match — Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow. vs highbrowism →mezzobrow 58% match — middlebrow vs highbrowism →doctrinairism 57% match — doctrinaire attitudes generally vs highbrowism →bigwiggery 57% match — The habits and attitudes of bigwigs. vs highbrowism →hidalgoism 57% match — The manners or attitudes of a hidalgo. vs highbrowism →middlebrow 57% match — Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between. vs highbrowism →