Definition of "overbearingness" [overbearingness]

• Overbearing or arrogant character or conduct. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "There was a certain overbearingness and - what shall I say?"
• "As I note in my book, professor Stephen Thernstrom, who is one of the most prominent conservatives at Harvard, supported Summers but admitted that Summers is in the “top tenth of one percent of any scale measuring abrasiveness, arrogance, and overbearingness.”"
• "Does Barack Obama really embrace “abrasiveness, arrogance, and overbearingness” as the model for his cabinet?"