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.

Noun

(en-noun)

Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners

The bride was elegance personified.

Restraint and grace of style

The simple dress had a quiet elegance .

The beauty of an idea characterized by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision

The proof of the theorem had a pleasing elegance .

(countable) A refinement or luxury

* {{quote-book, year=1852, author=Various, title=Young Americans Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=As to the comforts and elegances of life, we have enough of them for our good. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Isaac D'Israeli, title=Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At Rome, when Sallust was the fashionable writer, short sentences, uncommon words, and an obscure brevity, were affected as so many elegances . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=E. Phillips Oppenheim, title=The Governors, chapter=10, edition= citation

, passage=Phineas Duge