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hubris
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hubris has 1 sense
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hubris, n.
1 arrogant pride or presumption.
2 (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
1 arrogant pride or presumption.
2 (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
Derivative
hubristic adj.
Etymology
Gk
THESAURUS
hubris
arrogance, assumption, assurance, assuredness, audacity, belief, boldness, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, bumptiousness, certitude, cheek, chutzpah, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, contumely, conviction, courage, effrontery, faith, familiarity, gall, hardihood, heroics, imposition, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, lawlessness, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, obtrusiveness, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, poise, pomposity, positiveness, presumption, presumptuousness, pride, procacity, pushiness, rashness, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, settled belief, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, temerariousness, temerity, trust, unchariness, undue liberty, unwariness, uppishness, uppityness
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