Demeanour is the way a person carries and presents themselves. A calm demeanour, professional demeanour, his whole demeanour changed.
It is read rather than stated, which is why courts and interviewers put weight on it and why that weight is contested — judging honesty from demeanour is famously unreliable. This is the British spelling; American writing has demeanor.
1noundemeanourThe way a person carries and presents themselves.
“Despite the bad news, he kept a calm and cheerful demeanour.”
demeanour is a manner.
Also accepted in games: demeanor
Middle English
demenure
English
demeanor
English, today
demeanour
Built from
demeanor comes from Middle English demenure, from the verb Middle English demenen (“to handle, manage”), from Old French demener (“to guide, conduct”), from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin mināre (“to drive”) and minor (“to project or jut forth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA