Hubris vs Chutzpah - What's the difference?
hubris | chutzpah |
Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
(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,
As nouns the difference between hubris and chutzpah
is that hubris is excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods) while chutzpah is nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion.hubris
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(wikipedia hubris)Noun
See also
* sophrosyneExternal links
*chutzpah
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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 .