hubris
nounUK /ˈhjuːbɹɪs/ · CA, US /ˈhjubɹɪs/
Etymology Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὕβρις (húbris, “insolence, sexual outrage”).
1
Excessive arrogance or pride, or presumption; originally (Greek mythology) toward the gods; a feeling of overwhelming and all-encompassing pride.
- Antitrust prosecutors target big companies that exude hubris.1997, John M. Connor, “The Global Lysine Price-Fixing Conspiracy of 1992-1995”, in Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 19, number 2, page 426:
- 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.2017 August 20, “The Observer view on Donald Trump’s presidency”, in The Observer:
- Derived terms
- hubristic, hubristical, hubristically, unhubristic
- Related terms
- hamartia, pride comes before a fall, sophrosyne