vanity
vanities
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.
If you pride yourself on looking absolutely perfect and refuse to do any work that might dirty your clothes or mess up your hair, someone might accuse you of vanity. Often vanity is empty, like the emperor’s in The Emperor's New Clothes. If someone pays to have her own book published even though it’s really bad, we say it is a vanity printing.
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feelings of excessive pride
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synonyms:
amour propre, conceit, self-love
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type of:
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pride, pridefulness
a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
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pride, pridefulness
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the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
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synonyms:
conceit, conceitedness
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Antonyms:
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humbleness, humility
a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride
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narcism, narcissism, self-love
an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself
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boastfulness, vainglory
outspoken conceit
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egotism, self-importance, swelled head
an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
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posturing
adopting a vain conceited posture
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superiority complex
an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance
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type of:
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trait
a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
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humbleness, humility
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the quality of being valueless or futile“he rejected the vanities of the world”
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synonyms:
emptiness
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ineptitude, worthlessness
having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
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ineptitude, worthlessness
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low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
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synonyms:
dresser, dressing table, toilet table
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table
a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
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table
Vocabulary lists containing vanity
Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores is a queer Mexican-American girl who navigates Catholic school and first love while learning to be authentic to herself.
Here are links to our lists for the novel: Prologue–Chapter 3, Chapters 4–6, Chapters 7–10, Chapters 11–15, Chapters 16–22
Teenagers Penelope and Xander navigate first love and family matters while working at Penelope's father's restaurant.
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