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vanityvan‧i‧ty /ˈvænəti/ ●○○ noun (plural vanities)   vanityOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French vanité, from Latin vanitas, from vanus; ➔ VAIN - Her vanity kept her from getting a hearing aid.
- His life is driven by vanity. He has to drive around in the most expensive car and wear the best designer clothes.
- Jo's vanity wouldn't let her walk past a mirror without looking in it.
- Vanity by any other name is still vanity.
- Her older sisters plaited and decorated her hair, encouraging an already overdeveloped vanity.
- His erect pompadour stands as proof that his male vanity is unharmed despite his incarceration.
- However, little things which affect our vanity often influence us more strongly than major things which could affect our health.
- The fury aroused by his anti-Pitt eloquence was at once frightening and flattering to his vanity.
- They say I had the vanity to go down to Croisset and make an embarrassing scene on his doorstep.
an unreasonable feeling of pride► arrogance an unreasonable pride in your own abilities or qualities, which makes you behave rudely, as if other people were of no importance or interest: · "I ought to be in charge here," said Jack with simple arrogance.· His arrogance and unwillingness to learn from others prevent him from being an effective member of the team. ► conceit too much pride in your own abilities, appearance, or qualities, especially following a success which has made you behave as if you are very important: · After scoring the winning goal he almost danced along the road in his satisfaction and conceit.· I got so sick of his conceit that I threw the damn trophy out. ► vanity great pride in yourself so that you are always thinking about yourself, especially about your appearance: · His life is driven by vanity. He has to drive around in the most expensive car and wear the best designer clothes.· Jo's vanity wouldn't let her walk past a mirror without looking in it. NOUN► case· She was carrying a small vanity case in one hand and her handbag in the other.· A vanity case landed on top of the gearshift. ► the vanity of something- By using key lines as verbal motifs, Pimlott also turns the play into a sombre meditation on the vanity of power.
- For conservatives it represented the vanity of social engineering and the breakdown of the liberal state in the face of impossible demands.
- Herodotos here shakes his head over the vanity of human wishes.
- Instead, he had directed his talents to bolstering the vanity of the military and the higher-paid members of the Civil service.
- She blinked artificial eyelashes over wide, brown eyes that were smarting from the vanity of contact lenses.
1[uncountable] too much pride in yourself, so that you are always thinking about yourself and your appearance:  Sabrina had none of the vanity so often associated with beautiful women.2[countable] (also vanity table) a dressing table3the vanity of something literary the lack of importance of something compared to other things that are much more important |