[van-i-tee] 
noun, plural -ties, adjective | 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. |
| 2. | an instance or display of this quality or feeling. |
| 3. | something about which one is vain. |
| 4. | lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness: the vanity of a selfish life. |
| 5. | something worthless, trivial, or pointless. |
| 6. | vanity case. |
| 7. | dressing table. |
| 8. | a wide, counterlike shelf containing a wash basin, as in the bathroom of a hotel or residence, often equipped with shelves, drawers, etc., underneath. |
| 9. | a cabinet built below or around a bathroom sink, primarily to hide exposed pipes. |
| 10. | compact 1 (def. 13). |
| 11. | produced as a showcase for one's own talents, esp. as a writer, actor, singer, or composer: a vanity production. |
| 12. | of, pertaining to, or issued by a vanity press: a spate of vanity books. |
| dressing table n. A low table with a mirror at which one sits while applying makeup. Also called vanity. |
| van·i·ty (vān'ĭ-tē) n. pl. van·i·ties
[Middle English vanite, from Old French, from Latin vānitās, from vānus, empty; see euə- in Indo-European roots.] |
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