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vanity
[ van-i-tee ]
noun
- excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit:
Failure to be elected was a great blow to his vanity.
Synonyms: ostentation, vainglory, complacency, egotism
Antonyms: humility
- an instance or display of this quality or feeling.
- something about which one is vain or excessively proud:
His good looks are his greatest vanity.
- lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness:
the vanity of a selfish life.
Synonyms: emptiness, futility, triviality, folly, unreality, sham
- something worthless, trivial, or pointless.
- a wide, counterlike shelf containing a wash basin, as in the bathroom of a hotel or residence, often equipped with shelves, drawers, etc., underneath.
- a cabinet built below or around a bathroom sink, primarily to hide exposed pipes.
adjective
- produced as a showcase for one's own talents, especially as a writer, actor, singer, or composer:
surprisingly entertaining for a vanity production.
- of, relating to, or issued by a vanity press:
a spate of vanity books.
vanity
/ ˈvænɪtɪ /
noun
- the state or quality of being vain; excessive pride or conceit
- ostentation occasioned by ambition or pride
- an instance of being vain or something about which one is vain
- the state or quality of being valueless, futile, or unreal
- something that is worthless or useless
- short for vanity unit
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- vani·tied adjective
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Origin of vanity1
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Example Sentences
Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.
In a hot-button cover story interview with Vanity Fair, Lawrence explained it best.
The book, surprisingly, is not the self-aggrandizing vanity trip of a preening pop star one would expect.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Diez said he married the duchess for love, not money.
“What The Little Mermaid Taught Us About Being Grown-Ups,” Vanity Fair commemorated in a GIF-laden post.
Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.
If I am proof against my own heart, in so dear a cause, shall I not be proof against the poor allurements of vanity and sense?
She was as incapable of jealousy as of aching vanity in the fact of a son whom the world was never permitted to forget.
Her youthful vanity had its way in a mind too speculative, intelligent, observant, merely to be shocked.
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