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The confidence that books the flight, then insults the pilot mid-air.
means Excessive pride or self-confidence that leads a person to overstep limits, ignore warnings, and invite their own downfall.
from From Greek hybris, a term originally tied to acts of violence, outrage, or public humiliation inflicted on others out of excessive pride — in Athenian law it could even mean a punishable offense against someone's dignity. In Greek tragedy it narrowed to mean the kind of overweening arrogance, especially defiance toward the gods, that drew down nemesis — divine retribution. The word passed into English through classical education, keeping that tragic shadow: hubris is never just confidence, it's confidence that has forgotten it's mortal.
- origin
- Greek word for insulting the gods on purpose
- greek penalty
- ancient tragedy always ended in nemesis, literally
- classic case
- Icarus owned wax wings and tested them anyway
- modern form
- ceo keynote right before the stock crashes