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What does hubris mean?

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Noun
  1. Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
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In life, the impulse toward a simple stripping down to some bare truth is either delusion, hubris, or the reductionist's dust.
This vision of world domination goes way, way beyond hubris, and crosses the border into outright megalomania.
In 1818 Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, a warning that we would be destroyed by our own technological hubris.
Any team that relentlessly jacks up trifectas even as it sinks one of every four boasts a confidence that borders on hubris.
The terms hamartia and hubris should become basic tools of your critical apparatus.
I have invoked Shelley as an epigraph because he identified the dangers of hubris and vanity when desire is exhausted and over-idealized.

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