different between interest vs charisma
interest
English
Alternative forms
- enterest (obsolete)
- interess (obsolete)
- intherest (pronunciation spelling, suggesting an Irish accent)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt???st/, /??nt??st/, /??nt??st/
- Hyphenation: in?ter?est
Noun
interest (usually uncountable, plural interests)
- (uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]
- (uncountable, finance) Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:
- You shall have your desires with interest
- 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act IV, sc 3:
- (uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. [from later 18th c.]
- (uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
- (countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
- (countable) Something or someone one is interested in.
- (uncountable) Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
- The conscience, indeed, is already violated when to moral good or evil we oppose things possessing no moral interest.
- 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend, Essay VIII:
- (obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
- (usually in the plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.
Synonyms
- (fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed): cost of money, oker
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
interest (third-person singular simple present interests, present participle interesting, simple past and past participle interested)
- To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
- It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.
- Action films don't really interest me.
- (obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- Or rather, gracious sir, / Create me to this glory, since my cause / Doth interest this fair quarrel.
- 1633, John Ford, Perkin Warbeck
- (obsolete) To cause or permit to share.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
Antonyms
- bore
- disinterest
Derived terms
- interested
- interesting
Translations
Further reading
- "interest" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 171.
Anagrams
- Steinert, ernstite, inertest, insetter, interset, sternite, tres-tine, trientes
Dutch
Alternative forms
- interesse (obsolete)
- intrest
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Doublet of interesse.
Pronunciation
Noun
interest m (plural interesten, diminutive interestje n)
- (finance) interest
Synonyms
- rente
Latin
Verb
interest
- third-person singular present active indicative of intersum
References
- interest in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- interest in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interest in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Middle French
Noun
interest m (plural interests)
- interest (great attention and concern from someone or something)
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charisma
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (khárisma, “grace, favour, gift”), from ?????????? (kharízomai, “I show favor”), from ?????? (kháris, “grace”), from ????? (khaír?, “I am happy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k????zm?/
Noun
charisma (usually uncountable, plural charismas or charismata)
- Personal charm or magnetism
- (Christianity) An extraordinary power granted by the Holy Spirit
- The ability to influence without the use of logic.
Synonyms
- charm, spell
Derived terms
- charismatic
Translations
Anagrams
- archaism, machairs
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (khárisma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xa??r?s.ma?/
- Hyphenation: cha?ris?ma
Noun
charisma n (plural charismata)
- (Christianity) charisma (gift of the Holy Spirit)
- Synonym: genadegave
- charisma (personally affability)
Derived terms
- charismaticus
- charismatisch
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