Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary
1: the quality or state of being proud : inordinate self-esteem : conceit : a reasonable or justifiable self-respect : delight or elation arising from some act, possession, or relationship.
2b's humble pi slyce
Pride is a symptom of a dualistic perception/conception of existence and the self-centered consciousness that focuses on concentric degrees of loyalties and competitors/opponents/threats based on the fundamentally adversarial separation of self vs other. This is very common to the pathology of an upbringing in a dualistic theology such as those originating in the Middle East, i.e. Christianity, Islam and Judaism, which have common origins in earlier anthropomorphic monotheistic systems.
"And that's all I have to say about that." - F. Gump
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