vanity, vainness

vanity, vainness
Vanity means "excessive pride," "lofty opinion of one's abilities, appearance, dress, and achievements": "His loss in the election was a blow to his vanity." Vanity also has a meaning of "worthlessness," "something lacking in value": "He indulged in the vanity of a self-centered life." Related words include ostentation, pride, egotism, vainglory, complacency, conceit, self-esteem, and self-admiration. Vainness, as well as the adjectival form vain, is an uncommonly used synonym for vanity, particularly in the meanings of "valueless," "worthless," "baseness": "This pageantry is a show of pomp and vainness." Words related to vainness and vain in their basic meaning are trifling, trivial, futile, nugatory, profitless, and useless.

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  • vainness — See vanity. See vanity, vainness …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • vanity — See vanity, vainness …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • vanity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Excessive pride Nouns 1. vanity, conceit, conceitedness; immodesty, self esteem, self love, self praise; complacency, smugness, amour propre, hubris; ego trip. See boasting, selfishness. 2. [false] pride …   English dictionary for students

  • vainness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The condition or quality df being useless or ineffective: bootlessness, fruitlessness, futility, unavailingness, unprofitableness, uselessness, vanity. See THRIVE, USED. 2. A regarding of oneself with undue favor:… …   English dictionary for students

  • vanity — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, aimlessness, amour propre, arrogance, autotheism, big deal, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bootlessness, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, cockiness, conceit, conceitedness …   Moby Thesaurus

  • snobbery — n snobbishness, snobbiness, snobbism, condescension, condescendence, patronage; conceit, conceitedness, Inf. uppishness, Inf. snootiness, Inf. snottiness; arrogance, high horse, haughtiness, hauteur, cavalierness, cavalierism; contemptuousness,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • pride — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sense of self worth Nouns 1. pride, hauteur; dignity, self respect, self esteem, self sufficiency, reserve. 2. (sympton of pride) arrogance, insolence; ostentation; vanity, vainglory, crest, airs, high… …   English dictionary for students

  • futility — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. uselessness, ineffectiveness, fruitlessness, falseness, hollowness, triviality, frivolity, idleness, vanity, emptiness, hopelessness, worthlessness, labor in vain, lost trouble, unprofitableness, purposelessness,… …   English dictionary for students

  • conceit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. vanity, pride, egotism, self esteem; epigram, bon mot, quip; whim, fantasy, fancy, caprice, notion, quirk. See wit, imagination, figurative. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. vanity, self admiration,… …   English dictionary for students

  • egotism — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. vanity, self exaltation, [self ]conceit. See selfishness. Ant., humility. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. egoism, conceit, vanity, pride, assurance, self love, narcissism, self confidence, self glorification …   English dictionary for students

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