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Catalepsy vs Posturing - What's the difference?

catalepsy | posturing |

As nouns the difference between catalepsy and posturing

is that catalepsy is severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions while posturing is the assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.

As a verb posturing is

present participle of lang=en.

catalepsy

English

Noun

(catalepsies)
  • (pathology) severe bodily condition, described in psychiatric pathology, marked by sudden rigidity, fixation of posture, and loss of contact with environmental conditions

    • Derived terms

    * cataleptic * cataleptoid

    Related terms

    * catatonic * catatonia

    See also

    * (wikipedia "catalepsy")

    posturing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.
  • * 1990 , Clyde de L. Ryals, A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature
    • With his "hatred of what was theatrical" (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors.
  • The behaviour of some birds as a means of signalling etc.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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