Translation of contemptuousness into Hebrew noun

Compare the above contemptuousness with what Einstein himself wrote to his friend Robert Thorton in 1944 on the same subject: 'I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science.

Sometimes their reason-at other times their prejudices or superstitions: often their social affections, not seldom their antisocial ones, their envy or jealousy, their arrogance or contemptuousness: but most commonly, their desires or fears for themselves-their legitimate or illegitimate self-interest.