Pride
Pride is an inwardly directed emotion that carries two antithetical meanings. With a negative connotation pride refers to a foolishly and irrationally corrupt sense of one’s personal value, status or accomplishments, used synonymously with hubris. With a positive connotation, pride refers to a humble and content sense of attachment toward one’s own or another’s choices and actions, or toward a whole group of people, and is a product of praise, independent self-reflection, and a fulfilled feeling of belonging.
In Judaism, pride is called the root of all evil. In Christianity, pride is the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins, the father of all sins.
Philosophers and social psychologists have noted that pride is a complex secondary emotion which requires the development of a sense of self and the mastery of relevant conceptual distinctions (e.g. that pride is distinct from happiness and joy) through language-based interaction with others. Some social psychologists identify the nonverbal expression of pride as a means of sending a functional, automatically perceived signal of high social status. In contrast, pride could also be defined as a lowly disagreement with the truth. One definition of pride in the former sense comes from St. Augustine: “the love of one’s own excellence”. A similar definition comes from Meher Baba: “Pride is the specific feeling through which egoism manifests.”
Pride is sometimes viewed as corrupt or as a vice, sometimes as proper or as a virtue. While some philosophers such as Aristotle (and George Bernard Shaw) consider pride (but not hubris) a profound virtue, some world religions consider pride’s fraudulent form a sin, such as is expressed in Proverbs 11:2 of the Hebrew Bible. When viewed as a virtue, pride in one’s abilities is known as virtuous pride, greatness of soul or magnanimity, but when viewed as a vice it is often known to be self-idolatry, sadistic contempt, vanity or vainglory. Pride can also manifest itself as a high opinion of one’s nation (national pride) and ethnicity (ethnic pride).
Conceit
In modern literary criticism, more common with genre fiction, conceit often means an extended rhetorical device, summed up in a short phrase, that refers to a situation which either does not exist, or exists rarely, but is needed for the plot.
“Faster than light travel” and “superior alien science” are examples from science fiction; the “hardboiled private gumshoe” is an example from detective stories. The word conceit was originally coined in the context of poetry, deriving from the root concept, conceive. It has subsequently been extended to other forms of literature, the performing arts, painting, photography, and even architecture.
Pride (noun)
The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one’s own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
Pride (noun)
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.
“He took pride in his work.”
“He had pride of ownership in his department.”
Pride (noun)
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain; hubris.
Pride (noun)
That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-congratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
Pride (noun)
Show; ostentation; glory.
Pride (noun)
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory,
Pride (noun)
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
Pride (noun)
Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
Pride (noun)
A company of lions or other large felines.
“A pride of lions often consists of a dominant male, his harem and their offspring, but young adult males ‘leave home’ to roam about as bachelors pride until able to seize/establish a family pride of their own.”
Pride (noun)
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Pride (noun)
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Pride (verb)
To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
“I pride myself on being a good judge of character.”
Conceit (noun)
Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. 14th–18th c.
Conceit (noun)
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
“a man of quick conceit”
Conceit (noun)
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
Conceit (noun)
Opinion, (neutral) judgment. 14th–18th c.
Conceit (noun)
Esteem, favourable opinion. from 15th c.
Conceit (noun)
A novel or fanciful idea; a whim. from 16th c.
Conceit (noun)
An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device. from 16th c.
Conceit (noun)
Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. from 17th c.
Conceit (noun)
Design; pattern.
Conceit (verb)
To form an idea; to think.
Conceit (verb)
To conceive.
Conceit (noun)
excessive pride in oneself
“he was puffed up with conceit”
Conceit (noun)
an ingenious or fanciful comparison or metaphor
“the idea of the wind’s singing is a prime romantic conceit”
Conceit (noun)
an artistic effect or device
“the director’s brilliant conceit was to film this tale in black and white”
Conceit (noun)
a fanciful notion
“he is alarmed by the widespread conceit that he spent most of the 1980s drunk”