Pride vs. Love — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pride and Love
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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.
Love➦
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.
Pride➦
A sense of one's own proper dignity or value; self-respect.
Love➦
A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.
Pride➦
Pleasure or satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association
Parental pride.
Love➦
A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.
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Pride➦
Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
Love➦
A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.
Pride➦
A cause or source of pleasure or satisfaction; the best of a group or class
These soldiers were their country's pride.
Love➦
A feeling of kindness or concern by God or a god toward humans.
Pride➦
The most successful or thriving condition; prime
The pride of youth.
Love➦
Often Love(Christianity) Charity.
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Pride➦
An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.
Love➦
Sexual desire or activity
The pleasures of love.
A night of love.
Pride➦
Mettle or spirit in horses.
Love➦
An instance of being in love
Teenage loves can be as fleeting as they are intense.
Pride➦
(Zoology) A group of lions, usually consisting of several related females and their offspring and a small number of unrelated adult males.
Love➦
A person for whom one has strong feelings of affection
She met her new love at the restaurant.
Pride➦
A flamboyant or impressive group
A pride of acrobats.
Love➦
Used as a term of endearment for such a person.
Pride➦
To indulge (oneself) in a feeling of pleasure or satisfaction
I pride myself on this beautiful garden.
Love➦
An intense emotional attachment to something, as to a pet or treasured object.
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.
Love➦
An expression of one's affection
Send him my love.
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.
Love➦
A strong predilection or enthusiasm
A love of language.
Love for the game of golf.
Pride➦
Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation.
Love➦
The object of such an enthusiasm
The outdoors is her greatest love.
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.
Love➦
Love(Mythology) Eros or Cupid.
Pride➦
Show; ostentation; glory.
Love➦
(Sports) A score of zero, as in tennis.
Pride➦
Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory.
Love➦
To feel love for (a person)
We love our parents. I love my friends.
Pride➦
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness.
Love➦
To feel sexual love for (a person).
Pride➦
Lust; sexual desire; especially, excitement of sexual appetite in a female animal.
Love➦
To feel devotion to (God or a god).
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.
Love➦
To feel or show kindness or concern to (a person). Used of God or a god.
Pride➦
(zoology) The small European lamprey species Petromyzon branchialis.
Love➦
To have an intense emotional attachment to
Loves his house.
Pride➦
(reflexive) To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it.
I pride myself on being a good judge of character.
Love➦
To embrace or caress
They were loving each other on the sofa.
Pride➦
A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); - called also prid, and sandpiper.
Love➦
To have sexual intercourse with.
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.
Love➦
To like or desire enthusiastically
Loves swimming.
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.
Love➦
To thrive on; need
The cactus loves hot, dry air.
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.
Love➦
To feel love or sexual love for another.
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.
Love➦
(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
Pride➦
Show; ostentation; glory.
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war.
Love➦
(uncountable) Strong affection.
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.
Love➦
A profound and caring affection towards someone.
A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
Pride➦
Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
Love➦
Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
Pride➦
To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; - used reflexively.
Pluming and priding himself in all his services.
Love➦
A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
Pride➦
To be proud; to glory.
Love➦
A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
My love of cricket knows no bounds.
Pride➦
A feeling of self-respect and personal worth
Love➦
(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
Pride➦
Satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements;
He takes pride in his son's success
Love➦
A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
Hello love, how can I help you?
Pride➦
The trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards
Love➦
A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
Pride➦
A group of lions
Love➦
(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
Pride➦
Unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Love➦
(euphemistic) Sexual activity.
Pride➦
Be proud of;
He prides himself on making it into law school
Love➦
An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
Love➦
Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
Love➦
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
Love➦
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
Love➦
Zero, no score.
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
Love➦
Nothing; no recompense.
Love➦
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
I love my spouse.
I love you!
I love that song!
Love➦
(transitive) To need, thrive on.
Mold loves moist, dark places.
Love➦
(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
I love walking barefoot on wet grass;
I'd love to join the team;
I love what you've done with your hair
Love➦
To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
Love➦
(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
Love➦
To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
I wish I could love her all night long.
Love➦
A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
Of all the dearest bonds we proveThou countest sons' and mothers' loveMost sacred, most Thine own.
Love➦
Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
He on his sideLeaning half-raised, with looks of cordial loveHung over her enamored.
Love➦
Courtship; - chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,And won her soul.
Love➦
Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; - opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
Love, and health to all.
Smit with the love of sacred song.
The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
Love➦
Due gratitude and reverence to God.
Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Love➦
The object of affection; - often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.
Open the temple gates unto my love.
Love➦
Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
Such was his form as painters, when they showTheir utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
Love➦
A thin silk stuff.
Love➦
A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).
Love➦
Nothing; no points scored on one side; - used in counting score at tennis, etc.
He won the match by three sets to love.
Love➦
Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.
A little western flower,Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound;And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Love➦
To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.
Love➦
To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
Love➦
To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
Wit, eloquence, and poetry.Arts which I loved.
Love➦
To have the feeling of love; to be in love.
Love➦
A strong positive emotion of regard and affection;
His love for his work
Children need a lot of love
Love➦
Any object of warm affection or devotion;
The theater was her first love
He has a passion for cock fighting
Love➦
A beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Love➦
A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;
Their love left them indifferent to their surroundings
She was his first love
Love➦
A score of zero in tennis or squash;
It was 40 love
Love➦
Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people;
His lovemaking disgusted her
He hadn't had any love in months
He has a very complicated love life
Love➦
Have a great affection or liking for;
I love French food
She loves her boss and works hard for him
Love➦
Get pleasure from;
I love cooking
Love➦
Be enamored or in love with;
She loves her husband deeply
Love➦
Have sexual intercourse with;
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?
