Vanity - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈvænətɪ|  American pronunciation of the word vanity
Brit.  |ˈvænɪtɪ|  British pronunciation of the word vanity

noun

- feelings of excessive pride (syn: conceit, self-love)
- the quality of being valueless or futile (syn: emptiness)
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride (syn: conceit)
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup (syn: dresser)

Extra examples

The handsome actor's vanity was well-known.

She described her accomplishments without exaggeration or vanity.

Sabrina had none of the vanity so often associated with beautiful women.

The novel is about a family consumed with pride and vanity.

Vanity and pride were his two worst character defects.

...reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone...

Any garbage of this kind is food for a woman's vanity.

A supreme satisfaction - salving over many wounds of vanity.

Her success feeds her vanity

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