hubris
[hyoo-bris, hoo-]
noun
excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
Also hybris.
Compare sophrosyne.
Origin of hubris
First recorded in 1880–85, hubris is from the Greek word hýbris insolence
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Related Words for hubris
pretension, audacity, chutzpah, vanity, cockiness, presumption, nerve, cheek, ostentation, pretentiousness, airs, pomposity, brass, insolence, loftiness, disdain, conceitedness, contemptuousnessExamples from the Web for hubris
Contemporary Examples of hubris
He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.
What were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris?
The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems.
Can Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama?
Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.”
Historical Examples of hubris
Her hubris was in part, at all events, the result of ignorance.
Before the WarViscount Richard Burton Haldane
Each Year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of Hubris, and then is slain.
Five Stages of Greek ReligionGilbert Murray
Every year He waxes too strong and commits "Hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment.
Euripedes and His AgeGilbert Murray
hubris
hybris
noun
Word Origin for hubris
C19: from Greek
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