Posture vs Composure - What's the difference?
posture | composure |
The way a person holds and positions their body.
* 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
* 1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
* 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
A situation or condition.
* 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
* 1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
* 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
* 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
(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
to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
Calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.
* Milton
* I. Watts
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(obsolete) The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.
* Evelyn
(obsolete) Orderly adjustment; disposition.
* Woodward
(obsolete) frame; make; temperament
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A combination; a union; a bond.
As nouns the difference between posture and composure
is that posture is the way a person holds and positions their body while composure is calmness of mind or matter, self-possession.As a verb posture
is to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired.posture
English
Noun
(en noun)- As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture .
- ...walking in a most dejected posture , without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
- Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture . It is most indecorous.
- 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...
- Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
- ...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.
- 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.
- The Moon beheld in any posture , in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.
Verb
(postur)- If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
- The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
- to posture''' oneself; to '''posture a model
- (Howell)
Anagrams
* ----composure
English
Noun
- We seek peace and composure .
- When the passions are all silent, the mind enjoys its most perfect composure .
- “Did you want anything, ma’am?” I enquired, still preserving my external composure , in spite of her ghastly countenance and strange exaggerated manner.
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- Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure [in music] and teaching.
- Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
- His composure must be rare indeed / Whom these things can not blemish.
- (Shakespeare)