superbia

Questions about superbia

What does superbia mean?

superbia means "unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)".

How many syllables are in superbia?

superbia has 4 syllables and divides as su-per-bi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for superbia?

Close synonyms include pride. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is superbia a common word?

superbia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.