Hauteur vs Vanity - What's the difference?
hauteur | vanity |
haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness
* 1960 , chapter XII
* 1992, , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 31
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
As nouns the difference between hauteur and vanity
is that hauteur is haughtiness or arrogance; loftiness while vanity is that which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.hauteur
English
Noun
(-)- “What's happened, young Herring?” I think for a moment he was about to draw himself up with hauteur and say he would prefer, if we didn't mind, not to discuss his private affairs, but when he was half-way up he caught Aunt Dahlia's eye and returned to position one.
- [...] as, indeed, a new subject presented itself now, "Here's our turn!" braking the Toyota and turning the wheel sharply without having had time to signal so, close behind them, an angered motorist sounded his horn, but The Senator took no heed: not out of arrogance or hauteur but, simply, because he took no heed.
vanity
English
(wikipedia vanity)Noun
(vanities)- To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology.