Your English bourbons lack our all round superiority (8)
I believe the answer is:
snobbery
'superiority' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
I don't understand the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for snobbery that I've seen before include "Pretension" , "Stuck-up attitude" , "Trait of condescending to those of lower social status" , "Quality of thinking others socially inferior" , "Superciliousness" .)