Hubris is overbearing pride that invites a fall. Punished for hubris.
In Greek tragedy it is always followed by ruin, which is why the word carries a warning. Hubris is only named afterwards, since at the time it looks like confidence.
1nounhubrisOverbearing pride that invites a fall.
“The whole expansion was hubris and the accounts said so from the start.”
hubris is a pride.
Greek hybris meant insolence or outrage against another person rather than pride alone.
Ancient Greek
ὕβρις — insolence, sexual outrage
English, today
hubris
Ancient Greek ὕβρις (“insolence, sexual outrage”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA