vainglory
n.
boastfulness, haughtiness, vanity
Vanity
For other meanings of vanity, see
vanity (disambiguation). For the Wikipedia page about so-called "vanity articles", see . In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to other. In some religious preachings, vanity is considered a form of self-
idolatry, in which one rejects God for the sake of one's own
image, and thereby becomes divorced from the
graces of
God. The stories of
Lucifer and
Narcissus (who gave us the term
narcissism), and others, attend to a pernicious aspect of vanity.
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vainglory
Noun
1. outspoken conceit
(synonym) boastfulness
(hypernym) conceit, vanity
Vainglory
(n.)
Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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vainglory
Synonyms and related words:
amour-propre, arrogance, autoeroticism, boastfulness, bombast, complacency, consequentiality, ego trip, egoism, egotism, exhibition, flaunting, haughtiness, narcism, narcissism, overproudness, overweening pride, pride, self-admiration, self-advertisement, self-advertising, self-applause, self-approbation, self-complacency, self-congratulation, self-consequence, self-content, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-glorification, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-infatuation, self-laudation, self-love, self-praise, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-vaunting, self-worship, smugness, vaingloriousness, vainness, vanity
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.