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Condescending vs Didactic - What's the difference?

condescending | didactic |

As adjectives the difference between condescending and didactic

is that condescending is assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude while didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.

As a verb condescending

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun didactic is

a treatise on teaching or education.

condescending

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Assuming a tone of superiority, or a patronizing attitude.
    • Quit talking to me in that condescending tone! You always treat me like a child – ugh!

    Synonyms

    * (assuming a tone of superiority) (l)

    Derived terms

    * condescendingly

    Related terms

    * condescendence * condescension

    Verb

    (head)

    • didactic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * didactick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • * Macaulay
    • The finest didactic poem in any language.
  • Excessively moralizing.
  • (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

    • Derived terms

    * didact * didactical * didactically * didacticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.