Pride vs. Enthusiasm — What's the Difference?

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.

In modern usage, enthusiasm refers to intense enjoyment, interest, or approval expressed by a person. The term is related to playfulness, inventiveness, optimism and high energy.

A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.

Great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause.

Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association

A source or cause of great excitement or interest.

Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.

Ecstasy arising from supposed possession by a god.

A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class

Religious fanaticism.

The most successful or thriving condition; prime

Intensity of feeling; excited interest or eagerness.

An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

Something in which one is keenly interested.

Mettle or spirit in horses.

Possession by a god; divine inspiration or frenzy.

(Zoology) A group of lions, usually consisting of several related females and their offspring and a small number of unrelated adult males.

Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse.

A flamboyant or impressive group

A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm.

To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction

Enkindled and kindling fervor of soul; strong excitement of feeling on behalf of a cause or a subject; ardent and imaginative zeal or interest; as, he engaged in his profession with enthusiasm.

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.

Lively manifestation of joy or zeal.

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

A feeling of excitement

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.

Overflowing with enthusiasm

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.

A lively interest;

Show; ostentation; glory.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.

Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.

A company of lions or other large felines.

(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.

(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); - called also prid, and sandpiper.

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.

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.

Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.

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.

Show; ostentation; glory.

Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.

Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.

To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; - used reflexively.

To be proud; to glory.

A feeling of self-respect and personal worth

Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements;

The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards

A group of lions

Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Be proud of;