Arrogance vs Chutzpah - What's the difference?
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The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
(slang) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;
* 22/01/2007 , The Times,
* 12/11/2007 , John Scalzi, Whatever,
Arrogance is a related term of chutzpah.
As nouns the difference between arrogance and chutzpah
is that arrogance is the act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption while chutzpah is (slang) nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;.arrogance
Alternative forms
* arrogaunceNoun
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English
Alternative forms
* khutzpah * khutspah * chutspah * khutspeNoun
(wikipedia chutzpah) (-)Modern Manners
- If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this.
Your Creation Museum Report
- But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah .