vanity — OAT · Shobdo

vanity

noun

1 a story about greed and vanity:

conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, narcissism, self-love, self-admiration, self-regard, self-absorption, self-obsession, self-centeredness, egotism, egoism, egocentrism, egomania;

pride, haughtiness, arrogance, boastfulness, swagger, imperiousness, cockiness, pretension, affectation, airs, show, ostentation;

literary vainglory, braggadocio.

▷antonyms modesty.

2 the vanity of all desires of the will:

futility, uselessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, purposelessness, idleness, fruitlessness, profitlessness.