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Posture vs Posturing - What's the difference?

posture | posturing |

As nouns the difference between posture and posturing

is that posture is the way a person holds and positions their body while posturing is the assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.

As verbs the difference between posture and posturing

is that posture is to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired while posturing is present participle of lang=en.

posture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The way a person holds and positions their body.
  • * 1609, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    • As if that whatsoever god who leads him / Were slily crept into his human powers, / And gave him graceful posture .
  • * 1689 (or earlier), Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
    • ...walking in a most dejected posture , without a band, unbraced, his arms a-cross his open breast, and his eyes bent to the floor;
  • * 1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    • Rise, sir, from this semi-recumbent posture . It is most indecorous.
  • A situation or condition.
  • * 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Deluge
    • Even as I was reading these fables of my millions, there lay on the desk before me a statement of the exact posture of my affairs...
  • * 1910, H.G. Wells, The History of Mr Polly
    • Uncle Jim stopped amazed. His brain did not instantly rise to the new posture of things.
  • One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
  • * 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    • ...that is, their Forts, Garrisons, and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.
  • * 1912, G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
    • But it is not true, no sane person can call it true, that man as a whole in his general attitude towards the world, in his posture towards death or green fields, towards the weather or the baby, will be wise to cultivate dissatisfaction.
  • (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
  • * 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World
    • The Moon beheld in any posture , in respect of the Sun and us, sheweth us its superficies ... always equally clear.

    Verb

    (postur)
  • to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
    • If you're finished posturing in front of the mirror, can I use the bathroom now?
  • to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
    • The politicians couldn't really care less about the issue: they're just posturing for the media.
  • To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
    • to posture''' oneself; to '''posture a model
    (Howell)

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    posturing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The assumption of an exaggerated pose or attitude.
  • * 1990 , Clyde de L. Ryals, A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature
    • With his "hatred of what was theatrical" (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors.
  • The behaviour of some birds as a means of signalling etc.

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