Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun uppityness

1 sense of uppityness

Sense 1
uppityness, uppishness -- (assumption of airs beyond one's station)
       => presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumption -- (audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness")