Deportment vs Disposition - What's the difference?
deportment | disposition |
bearing; manner of presenting oneself:
:Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
*:...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
conduct; public behavior:
:Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
apparent level of schooling or training:
:His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
self-discipline:
:The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
The arrangement or placement of certain things.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
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Control over something.
(label) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
(label) Final decision or settlement.
(label) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
(label) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
As nouns the difference between deportment and disposition
is that deportment is bearing; manner of presenting oneself while disposition is the arrangement or placement of certain things.As a verb disposition is
to remove or place in a different position.deportment
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
*comportment, behavior, accorddisposition
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- He was, indeed, a lad of a remarkable disposition ; sober, discreet, and pious beyond his age...