Vanity

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness. Prior to the 14th century, it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Vanity”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: C. E. Brock (died 1938), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.