vanity

Plural: vanities

Noun

• Excessive pride in one's own appearance, achievements, or abilities.
• feelings of excessive pride
• the quality of being valueless or futile
• the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
• low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
• That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
• Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
• A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
• A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
• Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.

Examples

• His VANITY led him to play a seven-letter word even when a shorter one was safer.
• It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration.

Synonyms

amour propre, conceit, conceitedness, dresser, dressing table, emptiness, self-love, toilet table, arrogance

Antonyms

humility

Related Words

vain, VANITIED