different between mood vs character

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: mo?od, IPA^(key): /mu?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d
• Homophone: mooed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English m?d (“heart, mind, spirit, mood, temper; courage; arrogance, pride; power, violence”), from Proto-Germanic *m?d?, *m?daz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”), from Proto-Indo-European *moh?-, *meh?- (“endeavour, will, temper”). Cognate with Scots mude, muid (“mood, courage, spirit, temper, disposition”), Saterland Frisian Moud (“courage”), West Frisian moed (“mind, spirit, courage, will, intention”), Dutch moed (“courage, bravery, heart, valor”), German Low German Mood (“mind, heart, courage”), German Mut (“courage, braveness, heart, spirit”), Danish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Swedish mod (“courage, heart, bravery”), Icelandic móður (“wrath, grief, moodiness”), Latin m?s (“will, humour, wont, inclination, mood”), Russian ????? (smet?, “to dare, venture”).

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. A mental or emotional state, composure.

   Synonyms: composure, humor, spirit, temperament

2. Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).
   • 1979, Judith Glassman, The Year in Music, 1979 (?ISBN):

     Whatever the mood of her music, funky or romantic, upbeat or blue, sophisticated or simple, her fans get the message. And as long as the word comes from Natalie, they adore it, turning every one of her albums to gold or platinum.

3. A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

   Synonyms: (informal) huff, pet, temper

   Antonyms: good humour, good mood, good spirits

   • 2010, Michelle West, City of Night: A Novel of the House War, Penguin (?ISBN):

     Rath was clearly in a mood, and only Jay could fix that. They found Carver first. Rath was even less amused to see Carver in the drill room than he had been to find Duster. He grabbed Carver with his free hand, and dragged him out.

   • 2018, Catherine Lievens, Beacon in the Darkness, eXtasy Books (?ISBN), page 93:

     Joel was obviously in a mood, and if he was going to start yelling, Alex would rather be alone. “What did I do this time?” “It's more what you didn't do, idiot.”

4. A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

   Synonyms: huff, frame of mind

   • 2018, Rebecca Chastain, A Fistful of Frost, Mind Your Muse Books (?ISBN):

     "The Placer SPCA brings by some kittens and puppies, and I do my best to get everyone tipsy and in a donating mood."

6. A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.
   • 1994, Kenneth Fearing, Complete Poems, page xxvi:

     This was the mood that led him to deny to Mainstream, the successor to the New Masses , permission to reprint “Reading, Writing, and the Rackets.” This was the mood that, when he was invited to a meeting to draft a letter of protest […]

   • 2010, Richard J. Murnane, John B. Willett, Methods Matter, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 8:

     By the early 1970s, more than 50,000 American deaths and the accompanying failed foreign-policy objectives had changed the country's mood.

7. (very colloquial, slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

   Synonym: big mood

   • 2019, Kris Ripper, Runaway Road Trip: (A Definitely-Not-Romantic Adventure):

     “I'm only here for a night. I'm road tripping with a friend and he decided we needed a queer bar, stat.” “Oh, that's a whole mood.”

   • 2020, Birgit Breidenbach, Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity, Routledge (?ISBN)

     […] For academics, not being familiar with new phrases that your students cofindently wield is a whole mood. […]

   • 2020, Cynthia St. Aubin, Love Bites (Oliver-Heber Books):

     He'd drawn a variety of designs on the white rubber toes. “Nice shoes,” I said. “Likewise,” he said, glancing down at my rockabilly-red peep toe pumps. “Those kicks are a whole-ass mood.” Whether Steven liked them on me or might like to […]

8. (obsolete, Northern England and Scotland) Courage, heart, valor; also vim and vigor.
   • 1440, O lord omnipotent?

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "mood": good, bad, foul.
• The phrase with main and mood means "with all one's might".

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ambiance, ambience
• atmosphere
• Gemütlichkeit

References

• The Middle English Dictionary
• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

Alteration of mode, from Latin modus.

Noun

mood (plural moods)

1. (grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

   Synonyms: grammatical mood, mode

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:grammatical mood

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• aspect
• tense

Anagrams

• Doom, Odom, doom

Estonian

Etymology

From German Mode.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?o?d??/

Noun

mood (genitive moe, partitive moodi)

1. fashion
2. tradition
3. appearance, style
4. (partitive) style, variety, sort, type

Declension

See also

• moondama

Manx

Pronoun

mood

1. second-person singular of mysh

   about you

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English m?d.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“intellect, mood, will, courage, nature”)

Etymology 2

From Old French mode.

Noun

mood

1. Alternative form of mode (“grammatical mood”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English caracter, from Old French caractere, from Latin character, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r, “type, nature, character”), from ??????? (kharáss?, “I engrave”). Doublet of charakter.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??(?)kt?/, /?kæ?(?)kt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??kt?/
• Hyphenation: char?ac?ter

Noun

character (countable and uncountable, plural characters)

1. (countable) A being involved in the action of a story.
2. (countable) A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene.

3. (uncountable, countable) A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.

   • A man of […] thoroughly subservient character

4. (uncountable) Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength.

5. (countable) A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma.

6. (countable) A written or printed symbol, or letter.
   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye.

7. (countable, dated) Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the particular form of letters used by a person or people.
8. (countable, dated) A secret cipher; a way of writing in code.
9. (countable, computing) One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
10. (countable, informal) A person or individual, especially one who is unknown or raises suspicions.

11. (countable, mathematics) A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group.
12. (countable) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty.

13. (countable, dated) The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation.

    • This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it.

14. (countable, dated) A reference given to a servant, attesting to their behaviour, competence, etc.
15. (countable, obsolete) Personal appearance.

Usage notes

Character is sometimes used interchangeably with reputation, but the two words have different meanings; character describes the distinctive qualities of an individual or group while reputation describes the opinions held by others regarding an individual or group. Character is internal and authentic, while reputation is external and perceived.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Pages starting with “character”.

Translations

Verb

character (third-person singular simple present characters, present participle charactering, simple past and past participle charactered)

1. (obsolete) To write (using characters); to describe.

See also

• codepoint
• font
• glyph
• letter
• symbol
• rune
• pictogram

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???????? (kharakt?r).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /k?a?rak.ter/, [k?ä??äkt??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?rak.ter/, [k????kt??r]

Noun

character m (genitive charact?ris); third declension

1. branding iron
2. brand (made by a branding iron)
3. characteristic, mark, character, style

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Hungarian: karakter
• Galician: caritel; ? carácter
• Irish: carachtar
• Italian: carattere
• Old French: caractere
  • ? English: character
  • French: caractère
• Polish: charakter
  • ? Russian: ????????? (xarákter)
• Portuguese: caractere, carácter
• Sicilian: caràttiri
• Spanish: carácter

References

• character in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• character in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• character in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

character m (plural characteres)

1. Obsolete spelling of caráter (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).