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Definition: Vanity |
VanityNoun1. Feelings of excessive pride. 2. The quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world". 3. The trait of being vain and conceited. 4. Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vanity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Vanity \Van"i*ty\, noun; plural Vanities. [Old English vanite, vanit['e], Latin vanitas, from vanus empty, vain. See Vain.]. (references) |
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Satire | VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? Hannibal Hunsiker. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Personal Care & Hotels | Meuble dans la salle de bain ou dans la chambre. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Usually in bathroom and used for make-up or shaving purposes. May include a sink. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Vanity is similar to pride, but usually involves the admiration of one's physical appearance rather than skills or talents. Somebody who believes that they are beautiful or spends a considerable amount of time tending to their looks is likely to be described as vain.See also: vanitas
Vanity is the performance name of a female singing trio (and its lead member) from the 80s. Their biggest hits were "Nasty Girl" and "Pretty Mess." Their trademark was explicity sexuality in their lyrics, performances and attire. Lead singer Vanity has since become a born-again Christian.
A vanity is a dressing table used to apply makeup, preen and coif hair. It normally is a low table simlar to a desk with drawers and one or more mirrors atop. Either a chair or bench is used to sit upon.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vanity."
Synonyms: VanitySynonyms: amour propre (n), conceit (n), dresser (n), dressing table (n), emptiness (n), self-love (n), toilet table (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Vanity; vox et praeterea nihil; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen. |
Fashion | Noun: fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show; (ostentation). |
Inutility | Vanitas vanitatum, vanity, inanity, worthlessness, nugacity; triviality; (unimportance). |
Overestimation | Noun: overestimation; Verb: exaggeration; vanity; optimism, pessimism, pessimist. much cry and little wool, much ado about nothing; storm in a teacup, tempest in a teacup; fine talking. |
Repute | Verb: be conscious of glory; be proud of; (pride); exult; (boast); be vain of; (vanity). |
Unimportance | Triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness; Adjective:; poverty; smallness; vanity; (uselessness); matter of indifference; no object. |
Vanity | Render vain; Adjective: inspire with vanity; Noun: inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head. |
Noun: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre; selfishness. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vanity |
| English words defined with "vanity": By wholesale ♦ Conceitedness ♦ grandiloquent ♦ modesty ♦ overblown ♦ pompous, pontifical, portentous, Pride of the desert ♦ Retort ♦ Self-glorious, Simple obligation ♦ Vanities, vanity fair. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vanity": A.M., Abolla, Asmodeus ♦ Beard, Brilliant Madman ♦ com, COMPACT ASSEMBLER ♦ Democritos ♦ Fal-lals ♦ Garret ♦ HEATHEN PHILOSOPHER ♦ Legs, Limbus of the Moon, Lobster Sauce ♦ MacTab, Menecrates ♦ net.- ♦ PLUMBING ASSEMBLER-INSTALLER, Plume Oneself ♦ valor, vanity domain, Vauxhall ♦ Wishing-cap. (references) |
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Screenplays | Ah, vanity, vanity (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Vanity, definitely my favorite sin. (The Devil's Advocate; writing credit: Tony Gilroy and Jonathan Lemkin. Based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman.) My vanity requires an audience (Washington Square; writing credit: Carol Doyle) You are attempting to appeal to my vanity. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart) ? To get our hopes up? To promise us we was gunna have a big house with a tire swing, vanity, and a picket fence, and then just leave, again (The War; writing credit: Kathy McWorter) | |
Lyrics | Ambiance and vanity. (December; performing artist: Collective Soul) | |
Clever | Pride is something we have. Vanity is something others have. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vanity Fair (1967) Folly of Vanity (1924) Vanity Fair (1923) The Vanity Pool (1918) Vanity and Vengeance (1918) | |
Song Titles | Hitchin' A Ride (performing artist: Vanity Fare) EARLY IN THE MORNING (performing artist: Vanity Fare ) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The author of Vanity Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man in top hat and tails with woman by vanity and letter T. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Miss Julia Sanderson / Photographed by Sarony for Vanity Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Vanity fair on the avenue. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Delcher & Hennessy present Miss Coghlan as Becky Sharp in Thackeray's Vanity fair. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Anne Sophie Swetchine | Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. |
Benjamin Franklin | Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt. |
Bruyere | Men blush less for their crimes, than for their weaknesses and vanity. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. |
| What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own. | |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. |
| Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. | |
Jonathan Swift | Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. |
Quintus Septimius Tertullian | I must dispel vanity with vanity. |
Thomas p Kempis | It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Vanity, it may be, chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is the fleeting vanity of the streamlet swelled by the storm |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The mainspring is vanity, assisted by the love of garlic and bread and butter |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | Vanity! Thy name is woman |
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Business | Among U.S. retailers, besides Levi Strauss which entered in the mid 90s, VF Corporation established operations in Argentina to market its Wrangler, Lee, and Vanity Fair brands directly. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope. "Why have you halted?" roared the commander of a division and Chickamauga, who had ordered a charge; "move forward, sir, at once." "General," said the commander of the delinquent brigade, "I am persuaded that any further display of valor by my troops will bring them into collision with the enemy." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vanity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.70% of the time. "Vanity" is used about 335 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.7% | 334 | 15,701 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 335 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "vanity". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abel | N/A | Biblical | Vanity |
| Ahihud | N/A | Biblical | Brother of vanity |
| Beth-aven | N/A | Biblical | The house of vanity |
| Sheva | N/A | Biblical | Vanity |
| Aapeli | N/A | Finnish | Vanity |
| Ábel | N/A | Hungarian | Vanity |
| Hebel | N/A | Jewish | Vanity |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "vanity": all is vanity ♦ vanity bag ♦ vanity box ♦ vanity cabinet ♦ vanity case ♦ vanity domain ♦ vanity Fair ♦ Vanity Fair Corp. ♦ vanity mirror ♦ vanity table. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "vanity": vanity-unit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vanity fair | 2,837 | demi moore vanity fair | 75 |
vanity | 1,759 | vanity bench | 75 |
bathroom vanity | 1,313 | bedroom vanity | 72 |
vanity fair magazine | 771 | shemale vanity | 71 |
vanity table | 430 | vanity club | 69 |
vanity fair bra | 272 | vanity light | 66 |
vanity plate | 198 | amanda bynes fair vanity | 66 |
vanity set | 189 | fair teen vanity | 61 |
vanity fair lingerie | 182 | vanity tray | 55 |
vanity mirror | 176 | vanity cabinet | 55 |
vanity stool | 143 | make up vanity | 53 |
vanity top | 134 | vanity sink | 49 |
bath vanity | 111 | bathroom vanity and sink | 47 |
6 vanity | 109 | bathroom vanity top | 46 |
bathroom vanity cabinet | 106 | fair olsen twin vanity | 44 |
vanity license plate | 97 | 2003 fair july vanity | 44 |
vanity fair outlet | 92 | duff fair hilary vanity | 42 |
furniture vanity | 89 | fair vanity wolfowitz | 41 |
cover fair vanity | 88 | bonfire of the vanity | 41 |
vanity chair | 85 | vanity lighting | 41 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "vanity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sqimë (refinement), kreni, kotësi (frivolity, futility, otioseness, otiosity, vainglory, wantonness). (various references) | |
Arabic | هباء (chaos, dust), حلية تافهة (knick knack, tawdry), حقيبة صغيرة لمستحضرات التجميل, غرور (arrogance, bighead, conceit, delusion, ego, egoism, egotism, pretension, pride, sufficiency), تفاخر زائف, تكبر (arrogance, be arrogant, look big, lordliness, pride, snobbery, snootiness, snooty, superciliousness, swank), خيلاء (pride, snobbery, vainglory, vainness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суетност (foppery, ostentation), суета (amour propre, bustling, vainglory), самомнение (conceit, egotism, importance, self esteem, self-conceit, self-importance), славолюбие (ambition, vainglory), тщеславие (vainglory), тоалетна масичка (dresser, dressing table), външен блясък (flash, flashiness, gilt, gloss, veneer), безсмисленост (inanity, inutility, vacuity), безполезност (disutility, futility, idleness, inefficiency, inutility), пустота (bleakness, emptiness, inanity, vacuity), празнота (blankness, chasm, emptiness, idleness, sketchiness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void). (various references) | |
Chinese | 虚荣, 浮華 . (various references) | |
Czech | marnost (futility, nothingness), marnivost (ego trip), ješitnost (conceit, self esteem). (various references) | |
Danish | forfængelighed. (various references) | |
Dutch | nietigheid (challenge, challenge of antecedent transactions, challenge to a fraudulent preference). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vanteco. (various references) | |
Farsi | پوچی (Absurdity, Vapidity), غرور (Assumption, Conceit, Insolence, Pride, Ruffe, Vainglory), خودبینی (Arrogance, Assumption, Conceit, Insolence), بیهودگی (Inaction), بطالت , بادسری . (various references) | |
Finnish | turhuus (futility), turhamaisuus, koreilu (ostentation, show). (various references) | |
French | vanité (vainglory, vainness). (various references) | |
German | Eitelkeit (conceit, conceitedness, idleness, vainness), Einbildung (chestiness, conceit, illusion, imagination, presumption). (various references) | |
Greek | κενοδοξία (vaingloriousness), ματαιότητα (uselessness, vainness), ματαιοδοξία (vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שוא (falsehood, lie, nothingness, vain, worthlessness), שחצ ות (arrogance, boastfulness, conceitedness, haughtiness), אפסות (futility, nothingness, nullity, vainness), "תפארות שוא, "תרברבות (boasting, conceit, haughtiness), "בל "בלים (foolishness, stuff and nonsense), "בל (blether, emptiness, futility, steam, vapor, vapour), 'אות ות (boastfulness, conceit, disdain, haughtiness, pride), ' "ר ות (coquetry, coquettishness, dandyism, foppery, foppishness), ריק ות (blank, emptiness), ריק (blank, emptiness, empty, vacant, vacuity, vacuum, vain, void). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hiúság (pretence, self-respect, vainness, windiness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesombongan (arrogance, conceit, haughtiness), kesia-siaan (futility), keangkuhan (arrogance, arrogancy). (various references) | |
Italian | vanit (conceit, futility, pride), fatuit (amour propre, fatuity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 虚偽 (falsehood, fiction, untrue). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょぎ (falsehood, fiction, untrue), きょえいし", きょえい (vainglory), '"き (affectation, courage, energy, health, ostentation, pep, robust, spirit, stamina, standard, vigor, vim, vitality), みばえ (appearance, attraction, charm, display, show), みえ (appearance, attraction, charm, display, pose, posture, show). (various references) | |
Korean | 허영. (various references) | |
Manx | mooaralys (ambition, arrogance, boastfulness, dignity, haughtiness, ostentation, pomp), mooaralaght (haughtiness, presumptuousness), fardail (inanity), corvian (conceit, egotism, self-importance). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dameveske (lady's bag, vanity bag). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anityvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vanglória (boast, vainglory), vaidade (airs, conceit, concetto, flatulence, flatulency, presumption, pretension, pride, self-conceit, self-importance, vainglory, vaunt), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-importance, self-sufficiency, self-support, surmise, swagger, swank, vainglory), orgulho de si mesmo, fatuidade (puppyism, self-complacency). (various references) | |
Romanian | vanitate (complacency, conceit, coquettishness, futility, importance, self-importance, vaingloriousness, vainglory), zãdãrnicie (fruitlessness, uselessness), orgoliu (conceitedness, self-importance, self-pride, vainglory), nimicnicie (nothingness), inutilitate (futility, hopelessness, idleness, needlessness, nugacity, pointlessness, uselessness), infatuare (inflation, perkiness, pomposity, presumption), ifos (whim), îngâmfare (conceit, false pride, haughtiness, perkiness, presumption, pride, self-conceit, superciliousness, vainglory), înfumurare (arrogance, pragmatism, pride, self esteem, self-importance, self-opinion). (various references) | |
Russian | тщеславие (conceit, vainglory). (various references) | |
Scottish | uaill (pride, vainglory), faoineas (folly, silliness), faoineachd, dìomhanas (idleness : an dìomhanas). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uzaludnost (futility), taština (conceit), sujeta. (various references) | |
Spanish | vanidad (amour propre, vainness). (various references) | |
Swedish | flärd (frivolity), fåfänglighet (futility, vainness), fåfänga (conceit, Folly, futility, idleness). (various references) | |
Turkish | makyaj masası (dressing table), kurum (airs, conceit, corporation, establishment, foundation, haughtiness, institute, institution, pose, shop, smut, soot, swagger), kibir (arrogance, conceit, disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, importance, loftiness, pride, snootiness, vainness), hava (aerial, aero-, air, airs, ambiance, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, aura, climate, Flavor, flavour, mood, ostentation, shades, showing off, side, sky, splash, splurge, strain, swank, weather, wind), gurur (elation, haughtiness, hauteur, lordliness, pride, vainness), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glitter, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, veneer, veneering), değersizlik (insignificance, insignificancy, paltriness, trashiness, triviality), boşunalık (uselessness, vainness). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юцhratparazlyk, baюagaяlyk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | су"та (ado), марнославство. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính hư ảo, lòng tự cao tự đại, hư danh tính kiêu căng, cái hư ảo chuyện phù hoa. (various references) | |
Welsh | oferedd (dissipation), gwegi (levity), gwagedd (emptiness), coegni (sarcasm, spite), balchder (arrogance, dignity, glory, pride). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | irritum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | UparxiV epispoudazomenh meta anomiaV elasswn ginetai o de sunagwn eautw met' eusebeiaV plhqunqhsetai dikaioV oiktirei kai kicra |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Substantia festinata minuetur quae autem paulatim colligitur manu multiplicabitur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Substaunce hastid shal be lassid; that forsothe litilmele is gedered, with hond shal be multeplied. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labor shall increase. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang katigayonan nga maani sa kakawangan magakahanaw; Apan kadtong nagatigum pinaagi sa pagpamoo adunay kauswagan. |
| Croatian | Naglo steèeno bogatstvo išèezava, a tko sabire pomalo, biva bogat. |
| Danish | Rigdom, vundet i Hast, smuldrer hen, hvad der samles Håndfuld for Håndfuld, øges. |
| Dutch | Goed, van ijdelheid gekomen, zal verminderd worden; maar die met de hand vergadert, zal het vermeerderen. |
| Finnish | Tyhjällä saatu tavara vähenee, mutta joka vähin erin kokoaa, se saa karttumaan. |
| French | La richesse mal acquise diminue, Mais celui qui amasse peu peu l`augmente. |
| German | Reichtum wird wenig, wo man's vergeudet; was man aber zusammenhält, das wird groß. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Lajan ou fè fasil pa lwen fini. Lajan ou fè nan di ap toujou fè pitit. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kekayaan yang didapat dengan mudah akan cepat berkurang pula; tapi harta yang dikumpulkan sedikit demi sedikit akan semakin bertambah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa kekayaan yang diperoleh dengan sia-sia, itu kelak akan dihabiskan, tetapi orang yang mengumpulkan dengan lelah tangannya itu akan menambahkan dia. |
| Italian | Le ricchezze accumulate in fretta diminuiscono, chi le raduna a poco a poco le accresce. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko nga taonga i puta mai i te whakamanamana ka iti haere: ko ta te tangata i whakaemi ai, he mea mahi, ka tupu haere. |
| Norwegian | Lett vunnet rikdom minker, men den som samler litt efter litt, øker sitt gods. |
| Portuguese | A riqueza adquirida s pressas diminuira; mas quem a ajunta pouco a pouco terá aumento. |
| Rumanian | Bogqyia ckwtigatq fqrq trudq scade, dar ce se strknge kncetul cu kncetul, crewte. - |
| Spanish | Las riquezas apresuradas disminuirán, pero el que junta poco a poco irá en aumento. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Vanity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aniti, anity, canity, ianity, janety, ovinity, vacity, vainity, vaint, vainy, vait, vanaity, vanaty, vanay, vanet, vanid, vanit, vanita, vanite, vanitys, vante, vantity, vanty, varity, venaity, venty, vexity, vincit, vinify, vinit, vinity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vanity" (pronounced va"nutē) |
| 5 | -a" n u t ē | humanity, inhumanity, insanity, profanity, sanity. |
| 4 | -n u t ē | affinity, alkalinity, amenity, community, dignity, disunity, divinity, eternity, femininity, fraternity, immunity, impunity, indemnity, indignity, infinity, masculinity, maternity, modernity, obscenity, opportunity, paternity, salinity, serenity, solemnity, Trinity, unity, vicinity, virginity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, ability, abnormality, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, ambiguity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, disparity, dissimilarity, diversity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indestructibility, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, materiality, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, sanctity, scarcity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: anti, ayin, navy, tain, tiny, tivy, tyin, vain, vina, viny, vita. | |
-3 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, any, ivy, nay, nit, tan, tav, tin, van, vat, via, yin. | |
-4 letters: ai, an, at, ay, in, it, na, ta, ti, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-t-v-y" | |
+1 letter: naivety, tantivy. | |
+2 letters: natively, nativity, vanitory, venality. | |
+3 letters: concavity, sylvanite, valiantly, vibrantly. | |
+4 letters: divinatory, inactively, inactivity, inevitably, innovatory, invalidity, inveteracy, invitatory, invocatory, negatively, negativity, sylvanites, vaultingly, vauntingly, veterinary, vigilantly. | |
+5 letters: antigravity, antipoverty, antislavery, attentively, biconcavity, clairvoyant, eventuality, evidentiary, expansivity, genitivally, intervalley, inviability, inviolately, involuntary, narratively, nonvalidity, normatively, overanxiety, overstaying, plaintively, syncopative, tentatively, travestying, ventilatory, vindicatory, vineyardist, volcanicity, voluntarily, vulcanicity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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