hubris

See also: húbris

English

WOTD – 30 July 2006

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

hubris (countable and uncountable, plural hubrises)

1. Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
   • 1997, John M. Connor, “The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy of 1992-1995”, in Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 19, number 2, page 426:

     Antitrust prosecutors target big companies that exude hubris.

   • 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.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hubris.

Derived terms

• hubristic

Translations

excessive pride or arrogance

• Albanian: kryelartësi (sq) f
• Arabic: غَطْرَسَة f (ḡaṭrasa)
• 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)

• Czech: namyšlenost (cs) f, arogance f
• Danish: hybris (da), overmod
• Dutch: hybris (nl), hoogmoed (nl), kapsones (nl) m
• Esperanto: orgojlo
• 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
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐌴𐌹 f (hauhhairtei)
• Hungarian: gőg (hu), hübrisz (hu), 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) (geoman)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: quretî (ku) f, pozbilindî (ku) f

• Macedonian: на́дменост f (nádmenost), горде́ливост f (gordélivost)
• 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: arrogancia (es), soberbia (es), desmesura (es) f, hibris f, hybris, hubris
• Swedish: hybris (sv)
• Ukrainian: зарозумілість f (zarozumilistʹ), гібрис m (hibrys)

See also

• sophrosyne
• hamartia
• pride comes before a fall

Further reading

• “hubris”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• rubish

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈubɾis/ [ˈu.β̞ɾis]
• Rhymes: -ubɾis
• Syllabification: hu‧bris

Noun

hubris f (uncountable)

1. hubris