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Catastrophize vs Humiliate - What's the difference?

catastrophize | humiliate |

As verbs the difference between catastrophize and humiliate

is that catastrophize is (obsolete) to end a comedy while humiliate is to injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

catastrophize

English

Verb

(catastrophiz)
  • (obsolete) To end a comedy
  • To regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic

    • Quotations

    *1623 Henry Cockeram, Chauncey Brewster Tinker - The English Dictionarie of 1623 *:‘To end a Comedy or the like’ (Quoted in OED) *1947 Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, University of Michigan Research Center for Group Dynamics - Human Relations *:Particularly likely to overreact are those who tend to catastrophize (Ellis, 1962) and those who have Type A personalities (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974) *2001 David H. Barlow - Clinical Handbook of Psychological Disorders *:Another way to catastrophize is to jump to an extreme conclusion from an unimportant or irrelevant event.

    References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 + 2004 (online)

    humiliate

    English

    Verb

    (humiliat)
  • To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

    • Synonyms

    * debase * disgrace * humble * shame * See also

    Related terms

    * humble * humiliation * humility

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