Whats A Good Word To Decribe People Who Get Upset Because Someone Else Shows Intelligence?

jocook17 | 20:17 Tue 25th Jun 2019 | Society & Culture

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someone who gets upset whenever someone knows something they dont and accuses them of being a know it all, and trying to upset them?

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Mamyalynne

I would have said insecurity or even a feeling of being threatened.

zebo

Does Thick cover it?? Inverted intellectual snob?

Mamyalynne

It would differ from person to person of course but some people find high intelligence as a threat, I see meeting really bright sparks as an opportunity.

ToraToraTora

I call it TTTs first law of knowledge. Self perception of knowledge is inversely proportional to actual knowledge. Thus people who know nothing think they know everything and people who are knowledgable are bright enough to know how little they know.

Togo

Gnosiophobia.

jackthehat

Gnosiophobics, surely....?

ToraToraTora

know all!

Mamyalynne

Epistemophobia (Gnosiophobia), does represent a fear of knowledge but it's usually in oneself - not necessarily in the way one copes with others more learned than you.

jourdain2

'Upstart'?

vetuste_ennemi

Don't know that many people are upset by people brighter than themselves.
Though I must admit, in my own case, that I am certainly envious. But then there have always been people richer, more talented and more attractive to the opposite sex than than me. Life's an itch if you care to see it that way. I prefer to note (positively) that even with my modest talents I've been lucky enough to have enjoyed a satisfying career, modest self-sufficiency and the love of good women. I say "luck", not "merit", by the way.

But comparisons are odiferous, aren't they? Or at least when they're not being invidious, which is the drift of the OP. The "correct" way to view these natural and inevitable inequalities is that there are far more people in the world who are less fortunate than me than people who are brighter, richer etc than me. The difference between Mark Zuckerberg and me is minimal compared with the difference between either one of us and a million people in South Sudan.