hubris

See also: húbris

English

WOTD – 30 July 2006

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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^[1]:

     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 using 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), hubris (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
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• 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: ,
• Polish: pycha (pl) f
• Portuguese: húbris (pt)
• 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
• pride comes before a fall

Further reading

• “hubris”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• rubish

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Spanish

Noun

hubris f (uncountable)

1. hubris