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Posture vs Outlook - What's the difference?

posture | outlook |

In lang=en terms the difference between posture and outlook

is that posture is to place in a particular position or attitude; to pose while outlook is to face down; to outstare.

As nouns the difference between posture and outlook

is that posture is the way a person holds and positions their body while outlook is a place from which something can be viewed.

As verbs the difference between posture and outlook

is that posture is to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired while outlook is to face down; to outstare.

posture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The way a person holds and positions their body.
  • * 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture .
  • * 1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
    • ...walking in a most dejected posture , without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
  • * 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    • Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture . It is most indecorous.
  • A situation or condition.
  • * 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
    • Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs...
  • * 1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
    • Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
  • One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
  • * 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    • ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
  • * 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
    • But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
  • (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
  • * 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World
    • The Moon beheld in any posture , in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.

    Verb

    (postur)
  • to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
    • If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
  • to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
    • The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
  • To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
    • to posture''' oneself; to '''posture a model
    (Howell)

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    outlook

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place from which something can be viewed.
    • Perched on the edge of the cliff was a hidden outlook .
  • The view from such a place.
  • An attitude or point of view.
    • He has a positive outlook on life.
  • Expectation for the future.
    • The outlook for temperature rises is worrying.

    Synonyms

    * (place from which something can be viewed ): * (view from such a place ): * (attitude, point of view ): attitude, opinion, point of view, viewpoint * (expectation for the future ): expectation, prognosis

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To face down; to outstare.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To outlook conquest, and to win renown.
  • To inspect throughly; to select.
    • (Cotton)

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