Vanity

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Middle English: from Old French vanite, from Latin vanitas, from vanus ‘empty’ (see vain).


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va(i)n +‎  -ity, from Middle English vanite, from Old French vanité, from Latin vānitas, from  vānus, whence English  vain.  Doublet of  vanitas. 


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vanity (n.)

c. 1200, "that which is vain, futile, or worthless," from Old French vanite "self-conceit; futility; lack of resolve" (12c.), from Latin vanitatem (nominative vanitas) "emptiness, aimlessness; falsity," figuratively "vainglory, foolish pride," from vanus "empty, void," figuratively "idle, fruitless," from PIE *wano-, suffixed form of root *eue- "to leave, abandon, give out." Meaning "self-conceited" in English is attested from mid-14c. Vanity table is attested from 1936. Vanity Fair is from "Pilgrim's Progress" (1678).