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US
/ˈvænəti, ˈvænɪti/
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[ UK /vˈænɪti/ ]
[ UK /vˈænɪti/ ]
NOUN
- low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
- feelings of excessive pride
- the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
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the quality of being valueless or futile
he rejected the vanities of the world
How To Use vanity In A Sentence
- In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
- Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to saybut, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. The Philosophy of Composition
- Augustine or Aquinas at least had some attempts to nail down the philosphical problem: the problem with "superbia" (vanity) and "amor sui". Armed and Dangerous
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
- Everyone in this facility yields to the seven deadly sins… especially pride and vanity!
- Most of these good-looking, solid and sculptural vanity units are not cheap, although the high street and mail-order catalogues are catching up with the trend.
- Their professional neediness and primped vanity spells it out. Times, Sunday Times
- Indeed, critical readers might suspect that the vanity press outlet was the only way these articles could get into print.
- In the middle of the vanity was another object made of rosewood - a jewelry box, I'd presume.
- And thereby to subduct them from under the absolute power of the vanity of their minds, by one means or other he fixeth in them steady thoughts concerning himself, and their relation unto him. Pneumatologia