vanity Noun
( vanities)
That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
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Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance or achievements.
A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair. The table is normally quite low and similar to a desk, with drawers and one or more mirrors atop. Either a chair or bench is used to sit upon.
Emptiness.
(obsolete) Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.
* It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration.
* Francis Bacon
- To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology.
Synonyms
* conceit
* egotism
* narcissism
* pride
* See also
Derived terms
* vanity case
Related terms
* vain
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dignity Noun
( dignities)
A quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.
* 1752 , (Henry Fielding), , I. viii
- He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity .
* 1981 , African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights , art. 5
- Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.
* 2008 , Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) [Switzerland]
- 'The dignity' of living beings with regard to plants: Moral consideration of plants for their own sake', 3: ... the ECNH has been expected to make proposals from an ethical perspective to concretise the constitutional term ' dignity of living beings with regard to plants.
[ ]Dignity of Plants
Decorum, formality, stateliness.
* 1934 , Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay :
- Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
[Columbia World of Quotations 1996.]
High office, rank, or station.
* 1781 , Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , F. III. 231:
- He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
* Macaulay
- And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?
One holding high rank; a dignitary.
* Bible, Jude 8.
- These filthy dreamers speak evil of dignities .
(obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
* Sir Thomas Browne
- Sciences concluding from dignities , and principles known by themselves.
Synonyms
* worth
* worthiness
Coordinate terms
* augustness, humanness, nobility, majesty, grandeur, glory, superiority, wonderfulness
Related terms
* deign
* dignified
* dignify
See also
* affirmation
* integrity
* self-respect
* self-esteem
* self-worth
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