I feel the need to note, hubris is *really commonly* misused in English.-

Hubris (ὕβρις) is not just arrogance or pride, but rather it is an *action* (there's a verb, ῠ̔βρῐ́ζω) - an insult or affront to an equal or superior designed to humiliate them which is born out of excessive arrogance or pride.

April 08, 2026 - 19:20 UTC

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The one I remember from undegraduate days is ἄτη. Never really heard a great definition, often translated as madness. But again, it's active madness, not just delusion. (BTW you motivated me to install a polytonic keyboard app!)
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O'erweening pride
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Oh, that explains why the modern Greek verb for "curse out" is a descendant of ῠ̔βρῐ́ζω.
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"I am super cool and amazing" - pride, arrogance even, but not hubris.

"You are lesser than me" (said to an equal to humiliate them) - hubris.

These Trump guys, insecure narcissists, looooove doing real hubris to try to fill the bottomless pit in their souls.
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In any case, telling the man that a billion Catholics believe is the divinely ordained representative of God on Earth that he needs to get in line because of the military power of a country of mere mortals?

Hubris.
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Like Odysseus taunting the Cyclop.
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I vaguely remember a college class where we went over ancient Athenian court cases. One was a guy who, after beating up another man, flapped his arms a squawked like a rooster. He was accused of Hubris
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