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vanity
English
Etymology
va(i)n +? -ity, from Middle English vanite, from Old French vanité, from Latin v?nitas, from v?nus, whence English vain. Doublet of vanitas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?væ.n?.ti/
Noun
vanity (countable and uncountable, plural vanities)
- That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
- Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance or achievements.
- A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair. The table is normally quite low and similar to a desk, with drawers and one or more mirrors on top. Either a chair or bench is used to sit upon.
- A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
- Emptiness. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (obsolete) Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.
- It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration.
Synonyms
- conceit
- egotism
- narcissism
- pride
- See also Thesaurus:arrogance
Derived terms
- vanity case
- vanity item
Related terms
- vain
Translations
Further reading
- vanity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- vanity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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materialism
English
Etymology
From French matérialisme; surface etymology is material +? -ism.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /m??t??i?l?z?m/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??t???i?l?z?m/
- Hyphenation: ma?te?ri?al?ism
Noun
materialism (countable and uncountable, plural materialisms)
- Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.
- 2010, Nuala O'Faolain, A More Complex Truth, "An Ugly Little War":
- We accept that a third of the population live on the poverty line. We accept that only a handful of the most exceptional of the children of the poor will make it through to a third-level education. We accept massive examples of greed and dishonesty in public life. We except the values of materialism. What do we expect then—to be left un-harassed, we who have all the privileges?
- 2010, Nuala O'Faolain, A More Complex Truth, "An Ugly Little War":
- (philosophy) The philosophical belief that nothing exists beyond what is physical.
- 1814, Joseph S. Buckminster, The Sermons by the Late Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, Sermon I:
- The result of the labours of philosophy appeared to be a total scepticism on the most important subjects of hu man duty and expectation. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus; and this system—if system it may be called, which left them without a God, a providence, a morality, or a retribution—was the fashionable philosophy of the more cultivated classes.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I:
- Medical materialism seems indeed a good appellation for the too simple-minded system of thought which we are considering. ... All such mental over-tensions, it says, are, when you come to the bottom of the matter, mere affairs of diathesis (auto-intoxications most probably), due to the perverted action of various glands which physiology will yet discover.
- 1814, Joseph S. Buckminster, The Sermons by the Late Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, Sermon I:
- (obsolete, rare) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Chalmers to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (philosophy): physicalism
- (philosophy): philosophical materialism
Antonyms
- (philosophy): idealism
Derived terms
- new materialism
- philosophical materialism
- scientific materialism
- speculative materialism
- transcendental materialism
Related terms
- materialistic
- materialist
Translations
See also
- idealism
- physicalism
Further reading
- materialism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- materialism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- "materialism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 197.
Romanian
Etymology
From French matérialisme
Noun
materialism n (uncountable)
- materialism
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
materiell +? -ism
Noun
materialism c
- materialism
Declension
Related terms
- materialist
- materialistisk
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