Pride vs. Rebellion — 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.

Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order. It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority.A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and then manifests itself by the refusal to submit or to obey the authority responsible for this situation.

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

An act of armed resistance to an established government or leader

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

Open, armed, and organized resistance to a constituted government.

Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.

An instance of this.

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

Defiance toward an authority or established convention

The most successful or thriving condition; prime

An instance of this.

An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.

(uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

Mettle or spirit in horses.

(countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.

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

(countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

A flamboyant or impressive group

The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.

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

Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.

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.

Refusal to accept some authority or code or convention;

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

Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

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

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.

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;