vanity

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The quality or condition of being vain.
2. n. Excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceit. See Synonyms at conceit.
3. n. Lack of usefulness, worth, or effect; worthlessness.
4. n. Something that is vain, futile, or worthless.
5. n. Something about which one is vain or conceited.
6. n. A vanity case.
7. n. See dressing table.
8. n. A bathroom cabinet that encloses a basin and its water lines and drain, usually furnished with shelves and drawers underneath for storage of toiletries.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The character or state of being vain Worthlessness; futility; falsity; unsubstantialness; unrealness; illusion: deception; emptiness; folly; want of substance to satisfy desire; hollowness.
2. n. The desire of indiscriminate admiration; inflation of mind upon slight ground; empty pride, inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or adornments, and making its possessor anxious for the notice and applause of others.
3. n. Ostentation; ambitious display; pompous vaunting; pride; vainglory.
4. n. That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, or unsubstantial Empty pleasure; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment; petty object of pride.
5. n. Fruitless desire or endeavor; effort which produces no result.
6. n. An empty or vain conceit; a trifle.
7. n. In the Bible, a heathen deity, as having no proper existence.
8. n. One of the personified vices in the old moralities and puppet-shows.

Wiktionary

1. n. That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
2. n. Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance or achievements.
3. n. A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair. The table is normally quite low and similar to a desk, with drawers and one or more mirrors atop. Either a chair or bench is used to sit upon.
4. n. Emptiness.
5. n. obsolete Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.
2. n. An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.
3. n. That which is vain; anything empty, visionary, unreal, or unsubstantial; fruitless desire or effort; trifling labor productive of no good; empty pleasure; vain pursuit; idle show; unsubstantial enjoyment.
4. n. One of the established characters in the old moralities and puppet shows. See Morality, n., 5.
5. n. same as dressing table.
6. n. A cabinet built around a bathroom sink, usually with a countertop and sometimes drawers.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
2. n. feelings of excessive pride
3. n. the quality of being valueless or futile
4. n. the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride