VANITY: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for VANITY?

Need another word that means the same as “vanity”? Find 23 synonyms and 30 related words for “vanity” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Vanity” are: amour propre, conceit, self-love, emptiness, conceitedness, dresser, dressing table, toilet table, narcissism, self-regard, self-absorption, egotism, egoism, egocentrism, egomania, futility, uselessness, pointlessness, worthlessness, purposelessness, idleness, fruitlessness, profitlessness

Vanity as a Noun

Definitions of "Vanity" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “vanity” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The quality of being valueless or futile.
• The trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride.
• Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements.
• The quality of being worthless or futile.
• Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup.
• Denoting a person or company publishing works at the author's expense.
• A dressing table.
• Feelings of excessive pride.

Synonyms of "Vanity" as a noun (23 Words)

amour propre	A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.
conceit	The trait of being unduly vain and conceited false pride. The director s brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white.
conceitedness	The trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride.
dresser	Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup. He s a meticulous dresser.
dressing table	Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure.
egocentrism	Concern for your own interests and welfare.
egoism	Concern for your own interests and welfare.
egomania	An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs.
egotism	The fact of being excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself. In his arrogance and egotism he underestimated Gill.
emptiness	Having an empty stomach. The emptiness of outer space.
fruitlessness	A lack of creative imagination.
futility	Pointlessness or uselessness. The horror and futility of war.
idleness	A state of inaction; inactivity. We suffered a period of enforced idleness.
narcissism	Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one’s physical appearance.
pointlessness	Total lack of meaning or ideas.
profitlessness	A dissolute man in fashionable society.
purposelessness	The quality of lacking any definite purpose.
self-absorption	Preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else.
self-love	Feelings of excessive pride.
self-regard	The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect.
toilet table	A room or building equipped with one or more toilets.
uselessness	The quality of having no practical use. He goes on to talk about the general uselessness of marketing forecasts.
worthlessness	Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful. The drill sergeant s intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness.

Usage Examples of "Vanity" as a noun

• It flattered his vanity to think I was in love with him.
• The vanities and ambitions of politicians.
• The vanity of human wishes.
• A vanity press.

Associations of "Vanity" (30 Words)

arrogance	The quality of being arrogant. The arrogance of this man is astounding.
arrogant	Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities. A typically arrogant assumption.
arty	Showily imitative of art or artists. Television people and arty types.
blowhard	A very boastful and talkative person. The segregationist blowhards who would dominate the politics of my state for a generation.
cocksure	Confident in an excessive or arrogant way. The cocksure golf prodigy from California.
conceit	The trait of being unduly vain and conceited false pride. The idea of the wind s singing is a prime romantic conceit.
conceited	Excessively proud of oneself; vain. An attitude of self conceited arrogance.
ego	The part of the mind that mediates between the conscious and the unconscious and is responsible for reality testing and a sense of personal identity. He needed a boost to his ego.
egocentric	An egocentric person. Egocentric spatial perception.
egoism	Concern for your own interests and welfare.
egotism	The fact of being excessively conceited or absorbed in oneself. In his arrogance and egotism he underestimated Gill.
emptiness	The quality of being valueless or futile. The vast emptiness of space.
greed	Excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves. The colonists greed for African land.
haughtiness	The appearance or quality of being arrogantly superior and disdainful. Her air of haughtiness.
haughty	Arrogantly superior and disdainful. A look of haughty disdain.
hedonism	The ethical theory that pleasure (in the sense of the satisfaction of desires) is the highest good and proper aim of human life.
hubris	(in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. The self assured hubris among economists was shaken in the late 1980s.
narcissism	Excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one’s physical appearance.
pomposity	Lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity. His reputation for arrogance and pomposity.
pompous	Affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important. Processions and other pompous shows.
poseur	A person who behaves affectedly in order to impress others.
pretentious	Intended to attract notice and impress others. The pretentious jargon of wine experts.
pride	A group of lions forming a social unit. The underlying theme of the song is black pride.
proud	Of an event achievement etc causing someone to feel proud. Proud alpine peaks.
self	Relating to of or by or to or from or for the self. To love in an unpossessive way implies the total surrender of self.
selfish	Concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others- Maria Weston Chapman. I joined them for selfish reasons.
selfishness	The quality or state of being selfish; lack of consideration for other people. An act of pure selfishness.
snobbish	Befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior. The writer takes a rather snobbish tone.
superciliousness	The trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior.
vainglorious	Excessively proud of oneself or one’s achievements; overly vain. This vainglorious boast of personal infallibility.