Arrogance is an offensive sense of your own importance. Sheer arrogance, the arrogance of power, accused of arrogance.
It is confidence that has stopped noticing other people, which is what separates it from self-belief. It is also the charge most often made against people who are right, which makes it a difficult accusation to weigh. The Latin means to claim for yourself.
1nounarroganceAn offensive sense of your own importance.
“His arrogance annoyed his colleagues, who were tired of his boasting.”
arrogance is a quality of pride.
Latin arrogantia comes from arrogare, to claim for oneself — ad plus rogare, to ask.
Latin
arrogantia
Middle French
arrogance
Middle English
arrogaunce
English, today
arrogance
From Middle English arrogaunce, from Middle French arrogance, from Latin arrogantia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA