hubris

hubris

See also: húbris

English

WOTD – 30 July 2006

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhjuːbɹɪs/, [ˈçju̟ːbɹʷɪs]

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Noun

hubris (countable and uncountable, plural hubrises)

1. Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
   • 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on Donald Trump’s presidency”, in The Observer‎:

     One would have thought that even Trump, despite all his hubris and egotism, would know better than to jump feet first into America’s most sensitive issue: racial division.

Derived terms

• hubristic

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:hubris.

Translations

excessive pride or arrogance

Arabic: ٌغَطْرَسَة‎ f ('ɣatˤ ra sa; ɣatˤ 'ra sa tun) Bulgarian: високомерие (bg) n (visokomerie), арогантност (bg) f (arogantnost) Catalan: arrogància (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 傲慢 (zh) (àomàn), 自恃 (zh) (zìshì), 狂妄 (zh) (kuángwàng) Danish: hybris (da), overmod Dutch: hubris, hoogmoed (nl), kapsones (nl) m Finnish: hybris, ylimielisyys (fi), uho (fi) French: hybris (fr) Georgian: მედიდურობა (mediduroba), სიამაყე (siamaq̇e) German: Überheblichkeit (de) f, Hochmut (de) m, Hybris (de) f, Dünkel (de) m Hungarian: gőg (hu), hübrisz, önhittség (hu) Icelandic: hroki (is) m, ofdramb n

Indonesian: keangkuhan (id) Italian: insolenza (it), arroganza (it), supponenza (it) f Japanese: 傲慢 (ja) (ごうまん, gōman), 不遜 (ja) (fuson) Korean: 거만 (ko) (geo-man) Kurdish: quretî (ku) f, pozbilindî (ku) f Polish: pycha (pl) f Portuguese: húbris Romanian: hybris (ro) n Russian: высокоме́рие (ru) (vysokomérije) Serbo-Croatian: arogancija (sh), oholost (sh), gordost (sh), visokomerje n Spanish: hybris, arrogancia (es), hubris, hibris f, desmesura (es) f Swedish: hybris (sv)

See also

• sophrosyne
• hamartia

Further reading

• hubris at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• rubish

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Spanish

Noun

hubris f (uncountable)

1. hubris