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Vanity   /vˈænəti/  /vˈænɪti/   Listen
Vanity

noun
(pl. vanities)
1.
Feelings of excessive pride.  Synonyms: amour propre, conceit, self-love.
2.
The quality of being valueless or futile.  Synonym: emptiness.
3.
The trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride.  Synonyms: conceit, conceitedness.
4.
Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup.  Synonyms: dresser, dressing table, toilet table.



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"Vanity" Quotes from Famous Books



... our language with at least one word. There is a fair at Ely founded in connexion with the abbey built by St. Etheldreda, and at this fair a famous "fairing" was "St. Audrey's laces." St. Audrey, or Etheldreda, in the days of her youthful vanity was very fond of wearing necklaces and jewels. "St. Audrey's laces" became corrupted into "Tawdry laces"; hence the adjective has come to be applied to all cheap and showy pieces ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... round of contradictions, birth and death, peace and war, the former state annihilated by the latter; and by reason of the fixity of these contradictions and the certainty of that annihilation, all human effort is vain, iii. 9. It is all alike vanity—not only the meaner struggles for food and drink and pleasure (ii.) but even the nobler ambitions of the soul, such as its yearning for wisdom and knowledge. Whether we turn to the physical or the moral ...
— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen

... lesson thou dost teach me! The life which is, and that which is to come, Suspended hang in such nice equipoise A breath disturbs the balance; and that scale In which we throw our hearts preponderates, And the other, like an empty one, flies up, And is accounted vanity and air! To me the thought of death is terrible, Having such hold on life. To thee it is not So much even as the lifting of a latch; Only a step into the open air Out of a tent already luminous With light that shines through its transparent ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... the counsels of fear—of a tame and cowardly spirit. I may rebut that imputation without vanity, by referring to the siege of Ctesiphon and the reduction of Egypt. The generous Zabdas will do me justice—nay, you all will—why am I apprehensive? Bear with me a moment more'—'Say on, say on, noble Otho,' said the Queen, and many ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware

... before them, Aunt Sally," said her mistress in a tone of gentle reproof, "their young hearts are only too ready to be puffed up with vanity and pride. Now what is ...
— Elsie's Motherhood • Martha Finley


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