Definition of "condescendingness" [condescendingness]

• The state or quality of being condescending. (noun)

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• "One finds the same complacency, the same condescendingness, in a far higher degree in the essays of Mr. A.C. Benson."
• "He achieves too much of a pulpit complacency -- therefore of condescendingness -- therefore of falseness to the deep intimacy of good literature -- when he begins to moralize about time and the universe."