vanidad

/baniˈdad/ · B2 · noun · f

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🪞 vanidad ← Latin vanitas = emptiness; vain, hollow show

Sounds like English vanity, and shares its Latin root vanus, meaning empty. Pomp and nonsense follow the same idea: showy outside, nothing inside. Spanish also uses it for empty, pointless things.

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