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means Excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements; also, the quality of being empty or worthless, as in vain effort or vain hopes.
from From Latin vanitas, 'emptiness, falseness, foolish pride,' built on vanus, 'empty, void' — the same root that gives us 'vain' and 'evanesce.' It reached English through Old French vanite. The double meaning is baked into the word: to be vain about your looks and to labor in vain both trace back to the same Latin emptiness. The famous biblical lament 'vanity of vanities, all is vanity' uses vanitas precisely in its older sense — not self-love, but futility, a chasing after wind.
- word origin
- From Latin vanitas, meaning emptiness or worthlessness
- art history
- Vanitas paintings paired skulls with jewels as death reminders
- biblical fame
- Ecclesiastes opens with vanity of vanities, all is vanity
- furniture
- The bathroom vanity literally exists to frame your reflection
- plate cost
- Vanity license plates fund roads while feeding egos
narcissus — greek mythological figure who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool
versailles hall of mirrors — louis xiv's 17th-century palace room with 357 mirrors displaying royal opulence
kardashian selfie culture — kim kardashian broke the internet with a bare selfie in 2014, epitomizing modern vanity