1. affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank; - Example: "the queen's condescension was intended to make us feel comfortable" [syn: condescension, condescendingness]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
condescendingness
n 1: affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for
differences of position or rank; "the queen's condescension
was intended to make us feel comfortable" [syn:
condescension, condescendingness]