Pride x Vanity: Qual a diferença
No romance Pride and Prejudice de Jane Austen a personagem Mary diz:
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Nos dicionários:
Pride = orgulho; amor-próprio, presunção; respeito de si mesmo; vaidade; soberba, insolência, arrogância, lactância, altivez...
Vanity = vaidade; frivolidade, ostentação; arrogância, orgulho. (E.U.) penteadeira.
MacMillan:
Proud: feeling happy about your achievements, your possessions, or people who you are connected with; used about someone who feels so proud that they think they are better than other people.
Vanity: the fact of being too proud of your abilities, or too interested in your appearance
Na Wikipedia:
In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others.
Pride is an inward directed (feeling) emotion that exemplifies either an inflated sense of one's personal status or the specific mostly positive emotion that is a product of praise or independent self-reflection.
Conclusão:
Pride e Vanity tem o mesmo significado de orgulho e vaidade e fiquei mais enrolado que...
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Nos dicionários:
Pride = orgulho; amor-próprio, presunção; respeito de si mesmo; vaidade; soberba, insolência, arrogância, lactância, altivez...
Vanity = vaidade; frivolidade, ostentação; arrogância, orgulho. (E.U.) penteadeira.
MacMillan:
Proud: feeling happy about your achievements, your possessions, or people who you are connected with; used about someone who feels so proud that they think they are better than other people.
Vanity: the fact of being too proud of your abilities, or too interested in your appearance
Na Wikipedia:
In conventional parlance, vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others.
Pride is an inward directed (feeling) emotion that exemplifies either an inflated sense of one's personal status or the specific mostly positive emotion that is a product of praise or independent self-reflection.
Conclusão:
Pride e Vanity tem o mesmo significado de orgulho e vaidade e fiquei mais enrolado que...
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1 resposta
Jlmmelo,
O que é mais relevante e que define a diferença, está no fato de "vanity" significar "too interested in your appearance"(interesse excessivo na aparência).
O que é mais relevante e que define a diferença, está no fato de "vanity" significar "too interested in your appearance"(interesse excessivo na aparência).
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