comportment

Noun

Meaning

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mien presence bearing way air method performance action practice style act port address appearance look
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Antonyms

rest avoid failure absence mistake ignorance
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Hypernyms

manner personal manner

Hyponyms

dignity lordliness gravitas

Examples

Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open. Martin Heidegger

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment. Christian Louboutin

Christina's contemporary John Bargrave described her comportment in a similar fashion but said witnesses ascribed her style more to childishness or madness than masculinity. Source: Internet

However, rhetorical analytic methods can also be applied to almost anything, including objects—a car, a castle, a computer, a comportment. Source: Internet

Over the years, I have thought back many times to my time at the Albee Foundation, and specifically the comportment that Edward Albee had modeled for me, for all of us who want to pursue careers in the arts. Source: Internet

But as Donna Haraway and others have noted, attention in science has roots in certain models of male comportment. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

comportable comportance comportation comportmental compos compos mentis