hubris
n.
excessive pride, egotism, extreme self-confidence, arrogance
Hubris
Hubris or hybris (
Greek ), according to its modern usage, is exaggerated self
pride or self-confidence (overbearing pride), often resulting in fatal retribution. In
Ancient Greece, "hubris" referred to actions taken in order to shame the victim, thereby making oneself seem superior.Hubris was a crime in
classical Athens. The category of acts constituting hubris for the ancient Greeks apparently broadened from the original specific reference to molestation of a corpse, or a humiliation of a defeated foe, to molestation, or "outrageous treatment", in general. The meaning was further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral law. Such an act may be referred to as an "act of hubris", or the person committing the act may be said to be hubristic.
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hubris
Noun
1. overbearing pride or presumption
(hypernym) arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, highhandedness, lordliness
Hubris
An arrogance due to excessive pride and an insolence toward others.
hubris
Synonyms and related words:
arrogance, assumption, assurance, assuredness, audacity, belief, boldness, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, bumptiousness, certitude, cheek, chutzpah, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, contumely, conviction, courage, effrontery, faith, familiarity, gall, hardihood, heroics, imposition, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, lawlessness, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, obtrusiveness, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, poise, pomposity, positiveness, presumption, presumptuousness, pride, procacity, pushiness, rashness, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, settled belief, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, temerariousness, temerity, trust, unchariness, undue liberty, unwariness, uppishness, uppityness
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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