boastfulness, haughtiness, vanity
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Vainglory Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutExcessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.
vainglory
\vain`glo"ry\ (?), n. [vain + glory.] excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; empty pride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness. he had nothing of vainglory. the man's undone forever; for if hector break not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself in vainglory.
vainglory
n : outspoken conceit [syn: boastfulness]
Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
Noun
1. outspoken conceit
(synonym) boastfulness
(hypernym) conceit, vanity
Vainglory Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others (Stephen LaMarche). Prior to the 14th century it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility. The related term vainglory is now often seen as an archaic synonym for vanity, but originally meant boasting in vain, i.e. unjustified boasting; although glory is now seen as having an exclusively positive meaning, the Latin term gloria (from which it derives) roughly means boasting, and was often used as a negative criticism.
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