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Flair vs Gumption - What's the difference?

flair | gumption |

As nouns the difference between flair and gumption

is that flair is (distinctive style or elegance) while gumption is energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.

flair

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A natural or innate talent or aptitude; a knack.
  • Distinctive style or elegance; panache or elan.

    • Synonyms

    * (natural or innate talent) gift, knack, talent * (distinctive style or elegance) elan, elegance, grace, panache, style

    Anagrams

    * ----

    gumption

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.
  • *
  • Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.
  • * 1936 ("Gumption" was used as one of Scarlett O'Hara's defining personality traits.) "What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't."

    • Synonyms

    * gumph * chutzpah