Status vs Antistatus - What's the difference?
status | antistatus |
A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
Prestige or high standing.
* 1957 , Gladys Sellew and Paul Hanly Furfey, Sociology and Its Use in Nursing Service , Saunders, page 81
A situation or state of affairs.
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, title= (label) The legal condition of a person or thing.
# The state (of a Canadian Indian) of being registered under the .
(label) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.
Against status (position or standing).
* 1970 , Adolph Baker, Modern physics and antiphysics
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 5, author=Robin Finn, title=A Downstate Deal Maker as Driven as His Boss, work=New York Times
, passage=His own fiscal conservatism, he says, is evident in the antistatus cars in the driveway. }}
As a noun status
is status.As an adjective antistatus is
against status (position or standing).status
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The king has status' in his kingdom, and the pauper has ' status within his immediate group of peers.
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- He is a status Indian.
Derived terms
* status quo * status symbolantistatus
English
Adjective
(-)- These people who affect the antistatus symbols, the fetishes of the studied unkempt look and the torn jeans...
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