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noun
1.
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.
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an instance or display of this quality or feeling.
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lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness: the vanity of a selfish life.
5.
EXPANDsomething worthless, trivial, or pointless.
adjective
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produced as a showcase for one's own talents, especially as a writer, actor, singer, or composer: a vanity production.
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of, pertaining to, or issued by a vanity press: a spate of vanity books.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Word Origin & History
vanity
early 13c., "that which is vain, futile, or worthless," from O.Fr. vanite, from L. vanitatem (nom. vanitas) "emptiness, foolish pride," from vanus "empty, vain, idle" (see vain). Meaning "self-conceited" is attested from mid-14c. Vanity table is attested from 1936. Vanity Fair
EXPANDis from "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678).
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