Usually means: Treating others as intellectually inferior.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. patronization: Merriam-Webster
  2. patronization: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patronization: Collins English Dictionary
  4. patronization: Wordnik
  5. patronization: Wiktionary
  6. Patronization, patronization: Dictionary.com
  7. Patronization: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. patronization: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Patronization: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. patronization: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Patronization: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patronization: Legal dictionary

(Note: See patronize as well.)

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▸ noun:  patronizing behaviour or talk

Similar:
patronisation, patrocination, paternalisation, sycophantism, sycophantry, professorialism, pedantism, patheticism, padrino system, pathetics, more...

Opposite:
respect, equality, appreciation



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Similar:
patronisation, patrocination, paternalisation, sycophantism, sycophantry, professorialism, pedantism, patheticism, padrino system, pathetics, more...

Opposite:
respect, equality, appreciation



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