personal honor
One's good name
Personal honor is a sense of one's own integrity and moral standing—the conviction that you've acted rightly according to your values.
It differs from reputation, which depends on others' perceptions; personal honor is internal, what you know about yourself when alone.
Someone may defend their personal honor by refusing to lie even when lying would benefit them: His personal honor wouldn't let him cheat, even anonymously.
The concept carries weight in contexts where external accountability is absent and only self-respect enforces conduct.
- dignityInnate personal worth
- chivalryKnightly code of honor
- honestyTruthfulness, sincerity
- man of his wordOne who keeps promises
- self-worthInternal sense of value
courage · stiff upper lip · stand · morality · trustworthiness · keeping faith · accountability · oath · rectitude · vindication · credibility · good name · prestige · impugn · besmirch · loyalty · sworn oath · satisfaction
- honorintegrity, uprightness, rectitude, probity, good name
- self-worthself-esteem, self-worth, self-respect, self-love, self-acceptance
- personal rightsprivacy, reputation, human dignity, right to privacy, individual rights
- Asian valuesfilial piety, collectivism, group harmony, interdependence, respect for elders
- Roman virtuesgravitas, auctoritas, Roman virtues
personal honordishonor
Loss of respect
shame · ignominy · infamy · moral corruption · depravity
personal honordisgrace
Loss of honor
self-loathing · self-contempt · humiliation · degradation · self-disgust