Vanity is the quality of being vain, or having a ridiculous amount of pride. If you have excessive vanity in your appearance, you probably spend long hours sitting at your vanity table doing your makeup or plucking your nose hairs.
The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
Noun
low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
Noun
the trait of being vain and conceited
Noun
the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world"
Noun
feelings of excessive pride
n.
The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to
satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
n.
An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride
inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or
decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride;
ostentation; conceit.
n.
That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or
unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of
no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial
enjoyment.
n.
One of the established characters in the old moralities and
puppet shows. See Morality, n., 5.
Vanity
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Here I may well show the vanity of that which is reported in the story of Walsingham.2.
The exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled.3.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher.
Vanity possesseth many who are desirous to know the certainty of things to come.
[Sin] with vanity had filled the works of men.
Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead; Succeeding vanities she still regards.4.
You . . . take vanity the puppet's part.
The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
Usage Examples
I imagine my children are going to save me from my vanity and be my passion and fill whatever fears I have of the amazing time I'm having right now being gone.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
I think when you do comedy, you play by a different set of rules. No one really wants you to be in that good shape. Being in good shape implies a level of vanity that isn't necessarily funny.
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
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Other Usage ExamplesThere is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely.
'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
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