Word Meanings - SELF-SUFFICIENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being self-sufficient.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-SUFFICIENCY)

• Vanity
• Emptiness
• unsubstantiality
• unreality
• falsity
• conceit
• self-sufficiency
• ostentation
• pride
• worthlessness
• triviality

Related words: (words related to SELF-SUFFICIENCY)

• OSTENTATION
  1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• VANITY BOX
  A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• TRIVIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
• CONCEIT
  conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
• EMPTINESS
  1. The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach. 2. Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness
• UNREALITY
  The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.
• FALSITY
  1. The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth. Probability does not make any alteration, either in the truth or falsity of things. South. 2. That which is false; falsehood; a lie; a false assertion. Men often swallow
• CONCEITLESS
  Without wit; stupid. Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.
• PRIDE
  A small European lamprey ; -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
• VANITY
  1. The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Eccl. i. 2. Here I may well show the vanity
• PRIDEFUL
  Full of pride; haughty. Tennyson. -- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful-ness, n.
• CONCEITED
  1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles. 2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain. If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their
• PRIDELESS
  Without pride. Chaucer.
• SELF-SUFFICIENCY
  The quality or state of being self-sufficient.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• SELF-CONCEITED
  Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
• MISCONCEIT
  Misconception.
• PRECONCEIT
  An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.