Pride vs. Dignity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pride and Dignity
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Definitions
Pride
Pride is positive emotional response or attitude to something with an intimate connection to oneself, due to its perceived value. Oxford defines it amongst other things as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance" This may be related to one's own abilities or achievements, positive characteristics of friends or family, or one's country.
Dignity
Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable rights.
Pride
A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.
Dignity
The state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect
The dignity of labour
Pride
Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association
Parental pride.
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Dignity
A composed or serious manner or style
He bowed with great dignity
Pride
Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
Dignity
The quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect.
Pride
A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class
These soldiers were their country's pride.
Dignity
Inherent nobility and worth
The dignity of honest labor.
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Pride
The most successful or thriving condition; prime
The pride of youth.
Dignity
Poise and self-respect.
Pride
An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.
Dignity
Stateliness and formality in manner and appearance.
Pride
Mettle or spirit in horses.
Dignity
The respect and honor associated with an important position.
Pride
(Zoology) A group of lions, usually consisting of several related females and their offspring and a small number of unrelated adult males.
Dignity
A high office or rank.
Pride
A flamboyant or impressive group
A pride of acrobats.
Dignity
Dignities The ceremonial symbols and observances attached to high office.
Pride
To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction
I pride myself on this beautiful garden.
Dignity
(Archaic) A dignitary.
Pride
The quality or state of being proud; an unreasonable overestimation of one's own superiority in terms of talents, looks, wealth, importance etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve and often contempt of others.
Dignity
The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.
Pride
A sense of one's own worth, and scorn for what is beneath or unworthy of oneself; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; rejection of shame
He took pride in his work.
He had pride of ownership in his department.
Dignity
Decorum, formality, stateliness.
Pride
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
Dignity
High office, rank, or station.
Pride
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.
Dignity
One holding high rank; a dignitary.
Pride
Show; ostentation; glory.
Dignity
(obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Pride
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
Dignity
(euphemistic) The male genitalia. en
Pride
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
Dignity
The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
Pride
Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
Dignity
Elevation; grandeur.
The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings.
Pride
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.
Dignity
Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, . . . the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power.
Pride
(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
Dignity
Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; - said of mien, manner, style, etc.
A letter written with singular energy and dignity of thought and language.
Pride
(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
I pride myself on being a good judge of character.
Dignity
One holding high rank; a dignitary.
These filthy dreamers . . . speak evil of dignities.
Pride
A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); - called also prid, and sandpiper.
Dignity
Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves.
They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.
Pride
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 in contempt of others.
Those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Pride that dines on vanity sups on contempt.
Dignity
The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect;
It was beneath his dignity to cheat
Showed his true dignity when under pressure
Pride
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.
Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride.
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.
Dignity
Formality in bearing and appearance;
He behaved with great dignity
Pride
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
Let not the foot of pride come against me.
That hardly we escaped the pride of France.
Dignity
High office or rank or station;
He respected the dignity of the emissaries
Pride
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.
Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride.
I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
A bold peasantry, their country's pride.
Pride
Show; ostentation; glory.
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
Pride
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place.
Pride
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
Pride
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; - used reflexively.
Pluming and priding himself in all his services.
Pride
To be proud; to glory.
Pride
A feeling of self-respect and personal worth
Pride
Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements;
He takes pride in his son's success
Pride
The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
Pride
A group of lions
Pride
Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Pride
Be proud of;
He prides himself on making it into law school
