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Definition: Hubris |
HubrisNoun1. Overbearing pride or presumption. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hubris" was first used: 1884. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Hubris is exaggerated pride or self-confidence often resulting in retribution. It is a common theme in Greek tragedies and mythology, whose stories often featured protagonists suffering from hubris and subsequently being punished by the gods for it. The word carries the connotation of the perpetrator comparing him/herself as equal to or greater than a/the god/ess/es.There was also a god called Hubris (or Hybris), the personification of the above concept, insolence, lack of restraint and instinct. He spent most of his time among mortals.
Greek mythological characters punished for their hubris:
- Arachne
- Bellerophon
- Chione
- Cinyras
- Ephialtes
- Iasion
- Marsyas
- Niobe
- Otus
- Salmoneus
- Thamyris
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hubris."
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| "Hubris" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Hubris" is used about 54 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) | 96.3% | 52 | 47,145 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hubris": hubris-tinted. | |
| 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 |
hubris | 128 |
definition hubris | 5 |
define hubris | 4 |
hubris industry | 3 |
hub hubris | 3 |
greek hubris | 2 |
hubris oedipus | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hubris"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kryelartësi (arrogance, hauteur, pride), arrogancë (arrogance, haughtiness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | високомерие (airiness, arrogance, pride). (various references) | |
German | hybris. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bántó gőg, arrogancia (arrogance, pridefulness), önhittség (cock-sureness, conceit, confidence, false pride, over confidence, pretension, priggishness, self-conceit, self-importance, superciliousness). (various references) | |
Italian | tracotanza (arrogance), insolenza (contumely, insolence, sass), alterigia (arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自惚れ (conceit, pretension), 傲慢 (arrogance, haughtiness, insolence, pride). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うぬぼれ (conceit, pretension), "うま" (arrogance, arrogant, conceited, haughtiness, insolence, pride, proud). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ubrishay.(various references) | |
Russian | спесь (pride). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oholost (arrogance, disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, morgue, snoot, superciliousness, swelled head). (various references) | |
Swedish | hybris, övermod (arrogance, bravado, presumption, recklessness). (various references) | |
Turkish | kibir (arrogance, conceit, disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, importance, loftiness, pride, snootiness, vainness, vanity), kasılma (contraction, convulsion, jerk, rigor, rigour, spasm), aşırı gurur. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xấc xược (flippancy, forwardness, perkiness), sự kiêu căng láo xược, ngạo mạn (assumptive, cellophane, haughty, lordly, perky). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | hybris. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hubris": hubrises, hubristic. (additional references) | |
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"Hubris" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haubois, Haubrich, hbris, hebros, Hebrus, hhubris, Hibis, hibris, hobrit, hofbrau, Horbys, horiz, Houtris, Huaraz, Huari, huberis, hubi, hubirs, hubis, hubres, hubri, hubrisn, hubrus, huburis, huhbris, Humbrol, hurbis, huris, hybris, khabiris, ubris. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hubris" (pronounced hyuw"brus) |
| 4 | -b r u s | fibrous. |
| 3 | -r u s | actress, ambassadress, ambidextrous, arris, Brontosaurus, buttress, chorus, Cirrus, citrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, cytomegalovirus, desirous, dextrous, disastrous, embarrass, estrous, estrus, ferrous, fortress, hantavirus, headmistress, heiress, huntress, hydrous, idolatrous, Iris, ludicrous, lustrous, Madras, maquiladoras, mattress, mistress, monstrous, Morris, nitrous, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, porous, puris, retrovirus, seamstress, sorus, stegosaurus, temptress, terrace, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus, virus, waitress, walrus, wondrous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-h-i-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: brush, buhrs, shrub. | |
-2 letters: bris, buhr, burs, bush, hubs, rhus, ribs, rubs, rush, shri, urbs. | |
-3 letters: bis, bur, bus, his, hub, rib, rub, sib, sir, sri, sub, urb. | |
-4 letters: bi, hi, is, sh, si, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-h-i-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: brutish, burnish, bushier, furbish, rubbish. | |
+2 letters: airbrush, bohriums, broguish, brushier, brushing, bushfire, hubrises, rubbishy, turbiths. | |
+3 letters: birdhouse, bothriums, brushfire, brushiest, brutishly, burnished, burnisher, burnishes, bushfires, cherubims, furbished, furbisher, furbishes, hairbrush, hubristic, nailbrush, publisher, refurbish, republish, rubbishes, shrubbier, thuribles. | |
+4 letters: airbrushed, airbrushes, behaviours, birdhouses, bounderish, brushfires, burnishers, burnishing, butcheries, butterfish, euphorbias, furbishers, furbishing, herbariums, kurbashing, neighbours, paintbrush, publishers, shrubbiest, superbitch. | |
| 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. | |
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