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A fool's hope, an overly-optimistic expectation.
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Vanity and pride are different things, ... Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
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Pride and Prejudice
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protologism: protologism:
A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become accepted into the language; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet in general use.
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