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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: overbearing pride or presumption

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Greek hybris Date: 1884 exaggerated pride or self-confidence • hubristic adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 arrogant pride or presumption. 2 (in Greek tragedy) excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis. Derivatives: hubristic adj. Etymology: Gk

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you accuse someone of hubris, you are accusing them of arrogant pride. (FORMAL) ...a tale of how an honourable man pursuing honourable goals was afflicted with hubris and led his nation towards catastrophe. = arrogance

Moby Thesaurus

arrogance, assumption, assurance, assuredness, audacity, belief, boldness, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, bumptiousness, certitude, cheek, chutzpah, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, contumely, conviction, courage, effrontery, faith, familiarity, gall, hardihood, heroics, imposition, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion, injudiciousness, insolence, lawlessness, liberties, liberty abused, license, licentiousness, obtrusiveness, overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, poise, pomposity, positiveness, presumption, presumptuousness, pride, procacity, pushiness, rashness, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, settled belief, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, temerariousness, temerity, trust, unchariness, undue liberty, unwariness, uppishness, uppityness