Definitions for vanity

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vanity van·i·ty

Spelling: [van-i-tee]

IPA: /ˈvæn ɪ ti/

Vanity is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in vanity (aintvy).

Definitions for vanity

noun

1. excessive pride in one's appearance, qualities, abilities, achievements, etc.; character or quality of being vain; conceit:
2. an instance or display of this quality or feeling.
3. something about which one is vain or excessively proud:
4. lack of real value; hollowness; worthlessness:
5. something worthless, trivial, or pointless.
6. vanity case.
7. dressing table.
8. a wide, counterlike shelf containing a wash basin, as in the bathroom of a hotel or residence, often equipped with shelves, drawers, etc., underneath.
9. a cabinet built below or around a bathroom sink, primarily to hide exposed pipes.
10. compact1 (def 13).

adjective

1. produced as a showcase for one's own talents, especially as a writer, actor, singer, or composer:
2. of, relating to, or issued by a vanity press:

Origin of vanity

1200-50; Middle English vanite Old French Latin vānitās, equivalent to vān- (see vain) + -itās- -ity

Examples for vanity

In a hot-button cover story interview with vanity Fair, Lawrence explained it best.

In an interview with vanity Fair, Diez said he married the duchess for love, not money.

Are the guys from vanity Fair and Time battling it out and trying to get gangster with each other?

When his vanity was injured, his blindness was almost inconceivable.

Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to vanity Fair for 11 years.

Alas, the vanity of mortal projects, even when they centre in the grave!

“What The Little Mermaid Taught Us About Being Grown-Ups,” vanity Fair commemorated in a GIF-laden post.

Her woman's vanity blossomed deliciously in the atmosphere of a man's love.

And have you not before now said, that nothing is so penetrating as the eye of a lover who has vanity?

Her slips with these men wounded Shakespeare's vanity, and he persisted in underrating her.