Vanity vs. Love — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Vanity and Love
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Definitions
Vanity
Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility.
Love
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.
Vanity
Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements
The vanities and ambitions of politicians
It flattered his vanity to think I was in love with him
Love
A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.
Vanity
The quality of being worthless or futile
The vanity of human wishes
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Love
A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.
Vanity
A dressing table.
Love
A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.
Vanity
Excessive pride in one's appearance or accomplishments; conceit.
Love
A feeling of kindness or concern by God or a god toward humans.
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Vanity
Something about which one is vain or conceited
"One thing ... rather quenched her vanities.
Love
Often Love(Christianity) Charity.
Vanity
Worthlessness, pointlessness, or futility
The vanity of regretting missed opportunities.
Love
Sexual desire or activity
The pleasures of love.
A night of love.
Vanity
Something that is vain, futile, or worthless.
Love
An instance of being in love
Teenage loves can be as fleeting as they are intense.
Vanity
See vanity case.
Love
A person for whom one has strong feelings of affection
She met her new love at the restaurant.
Vanity
See dressing table.
Love
Used as a term of endearment for such a person.
Vanity
A bathroom cabinet that encloses a basin and its water lines and drain, usually furnished with shelves and drawers underneath for storage of toiletries.
Love
An intense emotional attachment to something, as to a pet or treasured object.
Vanity
That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
Love
An expression of one's affection
Send him my love.
Vanity
Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
Love
A strong predilection or enthusiasm
A love of language.
Love for the game of golf.
Vanity
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 on top. Either a chair or bench is used to sit upon.
Love
The object of such an enthusiasm
The outdoors is her greatest love.
Vanity
A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
Love
Love(Mythology) Eros or Cupid.
Vanity
Emptiness. en
Love
(Sports) A score of zero, as in tennis.
Vanity
(obsolete) Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.
It is a vanity to say that if two stones are dropped from a tower, the heavier will experience the greater acceleration.
Love
To feel love for (a person)
We love our parents. I love my friends.
Vanity
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.
Here I may well show the vanity of that which is reported in the story of Walsingham.
Love
To feel sexual love for (a person).
Vanity
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.
The exquisitely sensitive vanity of Garrick was galled.
Love
To feel devotion to (God or a god).
Vanity
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.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher.
Vanity possesseth many who are desirous to know the certainty of things to come.
[Sin] with vanity had filled the works of men.
Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled,That all her vanities at once are dead;Succeeding vanities she still regards.
Love
To feel or show kindness or concern to (a person). Used of God or a god.
Vanity
Same as dressing table.
Love
To have an intense emotional attachment to
Loves his house.
Vanity
A cabinet built around a bathroom sink, usually with a countertop and sometimes drawers.
Love
To embrace or caress
They were loving each other on the sofa.
Vanity
Feelings of excessive pride
Love
To have sexual intercourse with.
Vanity
The quality of being valueless or futile;
He rejected the vanities of the world
Love
To like or desire enthusiastically
Loves swimming.
Vanity
The trait of being vain and conceited
Love
To thrive on; need
The cactus loves hot, dry air.
Vanity
Low table with mirror or mirrors where one sits while dressing or applying makeup
Love
To feel love or sexual love for another.
Love
(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
Love
(uncountable) Strong affection.
Love
A profound and caring affection towards someone.
A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
Love
Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
Love
A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
Love
A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
My love of cricket knows no bounds.
Love
(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
Love
A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
Hello love, how can I help you?
Love
A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
Love
(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
Love
(euphemistic) Sexual activity.
Love
An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
Love
Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
Love
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
Love
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
Love
Zero, no score.
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
Love
Nothing; no recompense.
Love
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
I love my spouse.
I love you!
I love that song!
Love
(transitive) To need, thrive on.
Mold loves moist, dark places.
Love
(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
I love walking barefoot on wet grass;
I'd love to join the team;
I love what you've done with your hair
Love
To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
Love
(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
Love
To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
I wish I could love her all night long.
Love
A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
Of all the dearest bonds we proveThou countest sons' and mothers' loveMost sacred, most Thine own.
Love
Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
He on his sideLeaning half-raised, with looks of cordial loveHung over her enamored.
Love
Courtship; - chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,And won her soul.
Love
Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; - opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
Love, and health to all.
Smit with the love of sacred song.
The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
Love
Due gratitude and reverence to God.
Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Love
The object of affection; - often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.
Open the temple gates unto my love.
Love
Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
Such was his form as painters, when they showTheir utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
Love
A thin silk stuff.
Love
A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).
Love
Nothing; no points scored on one side; - used in counting score at tennis, etc.
He won the match by three sets to love.
Love
Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.
A little western flower,Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound;And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Love
To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.
Love
To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
Love
To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
Wit, eloquence, and poetry.Arts which I loved.
Love
To have the feeling of love; to be in love.
Love
A strong positive emotion of regard and affection;
His love for his work
Children need a lot of love
Love
Any object of warm affection or devotion;
The theater was her first love
He has a passion for cock fighting
Love
A beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Love
A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;
Their love left them indifferent to their surroundings
She was his first love
Love
A score of zero in tennis or squash;
It was 40 love
Love
Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people;
His lovemaking disgusted her
He hadn't had any love in months
He has a very complicated love life
Love
Have a great affection or liking for;
I love French food
She loves her boss and works hard for him
Love
Get pleasure from;
I love cooking
Love
Be enamored or in love with;
She loves her husband deeply
Love
Have sexual intercourse with;
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?
