 In conventional parlance, vanity sometimes is used in a positive sense to refer to a rational concern for one's personal appearance, attractiveness and dress and is thus not the same as pride.However, it also refers to an excessive or irrational belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness "in the eyes of others" and may in so far be compared to pride.The term Vanity originates from the Latin word "vanitas" meaning "emptiness", "untruthfulness", "futility", "foolishness" and "empty pride".