Noun: vanitas
| Singular | vanitas |
| Plural | vanitases |
Sample Sentences
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In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life. [2009 March 6, Holland Cotter, “Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like vanitas
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin vānitās. Doublet of vanity. See: Latin Nouns '
vānitās'.