Definition of "superbia" [superbia]

• Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "It is thereby driven, ultimately, by spiritual pride what Augustine calls superbia and it is an essentially rational act - the training for the ascent is the intellectual training of dialectic."
• "Augustine or Aquinas at least had some attempts to nail down the philosphical problem: the problem with "superbia" (vanity) and "amor sui"."
• "Flamma simul libidinis ingreditur; ira, furor et superbia, divitiarum sequela."