Pride vs Character - What's the difference?
pride | character |
The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
* (rfdate) Macaulay
* (rfdate) (William Blake)
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
* (rfdate) G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to Aesop's Fables
That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children etc.
* (rfdate) Spenser
* (rfdate) Bible, Zech. ix. 6
* (rfdate) Goldsmith
(zoology) The small European lamprey species .
Show; ostentation; glory.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
* to be in the pride of one's life.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
(zoology) A company of lions.
(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something, be proud of it.
A being involved in the action of a story.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 26, author=Tasha Robinson, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= A distinguishing feature; characteristic.
A complex of mental and ethical traits marking a person or a group.
* Motley
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.
A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.
A written or printed symbol, or letter.
* Holder
Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
* Shakespeare
(computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
(informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.
(mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.
(dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.
* Addison
(dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to his/her behaviour, competence, etc.
As nouns the difference between pride and character
is that pride is the quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others while character is a being involved in the action of a story.As verbs the difference between pride and character
is that pride is to take or experience pride in something, be proud of it while character is to write (using characters); To describe.pride
English
(wikipedia pride)Noun
- He took pride in his work.
- He had pride of ownership in his department.
- A people which takes no pride' in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with ' pride by remote descendants.
- The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
- Pride goeth before the fall.
- lofty trees yclad with summer's pride
- I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- a bold peasantry, their country's pride
- Pride , pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
- a falcon, towering in her pride of place
Synonyms
* (lamprey species) prid, sandpiper * See alsoDerived terms
* point of pride * pride comes before a fall * pridefulVerb
- I pride myself on being a good judge of character, but pride goes before the fall and I'm not a good judge of my own character so I'm often wrong without knowing it.
References
(Webster 1913)Anagrams
* English collective nounscharacter
English
Noun
Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, passage=But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it. }}
- a man of thoroughly subservient character
- He has a great deal of character .
- Julius Caesar is a great historical character .
- It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.
- an inscription in the Runic character
- You know the character to be your brother's?
- in the miserable character of a slave
- in his character as a magistrate
- a man's character for truth and veracity
- Her actions give her a bad character .
- This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.