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hubris
What does hubris mean?
hubris (noun): excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption; originally toward the gods; a feeling of overwhelming and all-encompassing pride.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce hubris?
/ˈhjubɹəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does hubris come from?
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “pride, insolence, outrage”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “hubris” mean?
one who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause
Not quite: that's what martyr means.
excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption; originally toward the gods; a feeling of overwhelming and all-encompassing pride
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a statement of a belief or a summary statement of a whole belief system; also (metonymically) the belief or belief system itself
Not quite: that's what credo means.
with a negative connotation: great reluctance to spend money or other resources; miserliness, stinginess; an instance of this
Not quite: that's what parsimony means.
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