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

"It is thereby driven, ultimately, by spiritual pride what Augustine calls superbia and it is an essentially rational act - the training for the ascent is the intellectual training of dialectic."

deadly sin  mortal sin  

arrogance  haughtiness  hauteur  high-handedness  lordliness  

Cara  accessit  argumenti  argumentique  cognitione  

suburbia  superb  superbad  superbly  superbug