vanité

See also: vanite

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French vanité, from Old French, borrowed from Latin vānitātem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.ni.te/

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Noun

vanité f (plural vanités)

1. futility, pointlessness
2. vanity (excessive pride)
3. vanitas

Derived terms

• hauteur de vanité

Related terms

• vain

Further reading

• “vanité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• enviât, native, veinât, venait

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin vānitas, vānitātem.

Noun

vanité f (uncountable)

1. vanity (excessive pride)

Descendants

• French: vanité