hybris

[ hahy-bris ]
/ ˈhaɪ brɪs /

noun

OTHER WORDS FROM hybris

hy·bris·tic, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for hybris

  • The crime of hybris, which to the Greeks was the "unforgivable sin," is here made as real to us as it was to them.

    Five Plays |Edward John Dunsany
  • The vice which they denounced was hybris, wilful bondbreaking—wilful transgression of the socially appointed bounds.

  • Insolent disregard of propriety, "hybris," was the quality most denounced by the early moralizing poets.

    Ethics |John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts

British Dictionary definitions for hybris

hybris
/ (ˈhaɪbrɪs) /

noun

a variant of hubris

Derived forms of hybris

hybristic, adjective