vanité

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

• IPA^(key): /va.ni.te/

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vanité f (plural vanités)

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

• hauteur de vanité

• vain

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

• enviât, native, veinât, venait

From Old French, borrowed from Latin vānitas, vānitātem.

vanité f (uncountable)

1. vanity (excessive pride)

• French: vanité