'Stance' definitions:
Definition of 'stance'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Stance'
From: GCIDE
- Stance \Stance\ (st[a^]ns), n. [OF. estance. See Stanza.]
- 1. A stanza. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A station; a position; a site. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Golf, Baseball) The position of a player's feet, relative to each other and to the ball, when he is making a stroke or at bat. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
- 4. the mental attitude, position, or approach a person adopts in respect to something. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'stance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affect,
- affectivity,
- affirmance,
- affirmation,
- air,
- allegation,
- announcement,
- annunciation,
- assertion,
- asseveration,
- assumption,
- attitude,
- averment,
- avouchment,
- avowal,
- bearing,
- beck,
- beckon,
- body language,
- brow,
- carriage,
- cast,
- cast of countenance,
- charade,
- chironomy,
- climate of opinion,
- color,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- complexion,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- countenance,
- creed,
- dactylology,
- deaf-and-dumb alphabet,
- declaration,
- demeanor,
- deportment,
- dictum,
- dumb show,
- emotion,
- emotivity,
- enunciation,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- eye,
- face,
- facial appearance,
- favor,
- feature,
- features,
- feeling,
- feeling tone,
- foothold,
- footing,
- footplate,
- footrail,
- footrest,
- garb,
- general belief,
- gesticulation,
- gesture,
- gesture language,
- guise,
- hand signal,
- hold,
- idea,
- impression,
- ipse dixit,
- judgment,
- kinesics,
- lights,
- lineaments,
- lines,
- locus standi,
- looks,
- manifesto,
- mental attitude,
- mien,
- mind,
- motion,
- movement,
- mystique,
- notion,
- observation,
- opinion,
- pantomime,
- perch,
- personal judgment,
- physiognomy,
- point of view,
- poise,
- popular belief,
- port,
- pose,
- position,
- position paper,
- positive declaration,
- posture,
- predicate,
- predication,
- presence,
- presumption,
- prevailing belief,
- proclamation,
- profession,
- pronouncement,
- proposition,
- protest,
- protestation,
- psychology,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- purchase,
- reaction,
- say,
- say-so,
- saying,
- sentiment,
- shrug,
- sight,
- sign language,
- stand,
- standing,
- standing place,
- standpoint,
- statement,
- theory,
- thinking,
- thought,
- toehold,
- traits,
- turn,
- utterance,
- view,
- viewpoint,
- visage,
- vouch,
- way of thinking,
- word