1. [adj.] Of, or relating to hubris.
2. [v.] Displaying hubris (as a personality characteristic)
Root word - Hubris:
1. [n.] Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance: "There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris" (McGeorge Bundy)...
2. [n.] Excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance.
Synonym - Hubris:
airs, audacity, brass*, cheek*, chutzpah*, cockiness, conceitedness, contemptuousness, disdain, insolence, loftiness, nerve, ostentation, overbearance, pomposity, pompousness, presumption, pretension, pretentiousness, self-importance, vanity
All in all, it doesn't sound like a good trait to be toting through life, does it? But what if that arrogance was borne out of a valid reason? Or is there ever a reason valid enough to warrant such arrogance and unbridled pride?
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