Hubris (Noun)

Definition 1: Contemptuous pride, insolent arrogance.

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Usage 1: Another of those rarities of English: a word pronounced the way it is spelled. The adjective is "hubristic" and the adverb, "hubristically." Today’s word is also sometimes spelled “hybris.” Whether the mailroom clerk who takes his job complaint directly to the president’s wife shows moxie or hubris depends on whether we approve the idea (moxie) or not (hubris). Chutzpah is rather neutral in connotation and can be used positively or negatively.

Suggested usage: McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor under John F. Kennedy, warned, "There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris." That warning acquired a new shade of meaning recently when the executives of the technological giants WorldCom, Global Crossing, and others raised hubris to new heights by their ostensible long-term misappropriation of funds.

Etymology: The root of today's word goes back to Proto-Indo-European root *ud- "up, out," which also gave us English "out," German "aus," and Dutch "uit," all meaning the same thing. The same root with the suffix -ero underlies Latin uterus "womb" and "hysterical" from Greek "hysterikos," the adjective of hystera "womb" (from the ancient belief that hysteria resulted from an upset womb).

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