vanity
feelings of excessive pride
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,487 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,841 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- feelings of excessive pride also: amour propre, conceit, self-love
- the quality of being valueless or futile also: emptiness he rejected the vanities of the world
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride also: conceit, conceitedness
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup also: dressing table, dresser, toilet table
vanity in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Mrs. Rylands knew this herself, but without vanity or coquettishness.
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation · Bret Harte · Chapter 1
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Beside them, Johnson's title, "The Vanity of Human Wishes", looks very dogged and downright.
The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two · Samuel Johnson · Chapter 1
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Authors are vain people, and vanity as well as dignity is indigenous to a colony.
The Attaché · Thomas Chandler Haliburton · Chapter 1
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Yet he seemed capable of mastering anything that aroused his interest--or that stirred his vanity, for he loved to shine.
The Soul of a Child · Edwin Björkman · Chapter 1
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Also there was an air of certainty and universal comprehension, and though assertion and vanity were apparent, there was no self-consciousness.
The Money Master, Complete · Gilbert Parker · Chapter 1