Prestige vs Luxury - What's the difference?
prestige | luxury |
(obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
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The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
Something desirable but expensive.
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*:“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic??”
Something very pleasant but not really needed in life.
As nouns the difference between prestige and luxury
is that prestige is delusion; illusion; trick while luxury is very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.As an adjective luxury is
very expensive.prestige
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)- The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige .