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Highbrow
Used colloquially as a
noun
or
adjective
, "
highbrow
" is
synonymous
with
intellectual
; as an adjective, it also means
elite
, and generally carries a
connotation
of
high culture
. The word draws its
metonymy
from the
pseudoscience
of
phrenology
, and was originally simply a physical descriptor.
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