amor-próprio
Letters
12 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
amor-próprio is aPortuguesenoun. It means: sentimento de dignidade, estima ou respeito que cada qual tem por si mesmo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amor-próprio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for amor-próprio is 12 letters long, classified as anoun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for amor-próprio in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is amor-próprio, spelled A-M-O-R---P-R-Ó-P-R-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1sentimento de dignidade, estima ou respeito que cada qual tem por si mesmo
- 2(Derivação: por extensão de sentido) admiração ou orgulho excessivo de si mesmo; vaidade, soberba, imodéstia
- 3em Pascal (1623-1662), sentimento egoísta oposto à modéstia e à benevolência, vinculado ao esquecimento de Deus pelo coração humano
- 4em Rousseau (1712-1778), afeto eticamente condenável, originado da concorrência e da competição inerentes ao convívio social, que sucede e degenera o estado primitivo e moral de um ser humano ainda não socializado
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