Condescension vs Ridicule - What's the difference?
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The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. (jump)
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to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of
derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour
* Alexander Pope
An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
* Buckle
* Foxe
The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
* Addison
(obsolete) ridiculous
As nouns the difference between condescension and ridicule
is that condescension is the act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors (jump) while ridicule is derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.As a verb ridicule is
to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.As an adjective ridicule is
(obsolete) ridiculous.condescension
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Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension . She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,
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* (jump) condescendenceReferences
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Verb
(ridicul)- His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
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* (l)Noun
- Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, / Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
- [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
- To the people but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule .
- to see the ridicule of this practice
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* humiliationAdjective
(en adjective)- This action became so ridicule . — Aubrey.
