vanitas

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/

Definition of vanitas

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.
    “In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.”

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Etymology

From Latin vānitās. Doublet of vanity.

Anagrams of vanitas

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