vanity

n

1. egotism, conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, overweening pride, self-pride, self-love, narcissism, self-admiration, self-worship, Inf. me-ism, self-approbation, self-glorification, self-importance, swelled-headedness, vainglory, vaingloriousness, superciliousness; smugness, complacency, self-satisfaction.

2. arrogance, haughtiness, airs, hauteur; pretension, pretentiousness, pomposity, affected manners or ways, Inf. highfalutin' ways, affectation; ostentation, show, display, pomp, pageantry, glitter, showiness, flourish, fanfare, parade, array, fanfaronade, Inf. putting on the dog, Inf. getting on one's high horse; high notions, Inf. putting one's nose in the air; boasting, boastfulness, braggadocio, crowing, gloating, swagger, dash, panache; bumptiousness, bombast, bravado, shamelessness, brazenness, Inf. nerve, Inf. gall; foppishness, foppery, dandyism, coxcombry, frippery, frills and furbelows.

3. hollowness, worthlessness, emptiness, vacuity; fruitlessness, uselessness, futility, pointlessness, inanity, fatuity, vapidity; folly, foolishness, frivolity, ridiculousness; triviality, triflingness, nugacity; absurdity, meaninglessness, purposelessness, fecklessness; sham, unreality, unsubstantialness, lack of substance, nothingness, delusion.