A final note, a postscript that doesn’t belong in the main article:
The correct word for the final concept is not “arrogance,” because arrogance has, as I note in the first sentence, long since been conflated with the other two, with “hubris” and “pride”. It is, nonetheless, what I believe many people mean, when they say “arrogance”, and so it is the word I use here. And because it is something to be discarded, its linguistic affinity to “hubris” and “pride” mean those related concepts are thrown out with the bathwater.
A better word for the last concept, for “the state of being in the habit of mockery”, would be useful—though not for this particular point.
A final note, a postscript that doesn’t belong in the main article:
The correct word for the final concept is not “arrogance,” because arrogance has, as I note in the first sentence, long since been conflated with the other two, with “hubris” and “pride”. It is, nonetheless, what I believe many people mean, when they say “arrogance”, and so it is the word I use here. And because it is something to be discarded, its linguistic affinity to “hubris” and “pride” mean those related concepts are thrown out with the bathwater.
A better word for the last concept, for “the state of being in the habit of mockery”, would be useful—though not for this particular point.