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Depreciate vs Disparagement - What's the difference?

depreciate | disparagement |

As a verb depreciate

is to lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.

As a noun disparagement is

the act of disparaging, of belittling.

depreciate

English

Verb

(depreciat)
  • To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
  • * (rfdate) Cudworth
    • some over-severe philosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate .
  • * (rfdate) Burke
    • To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself.
  • To decline in value over time.
  • To belittle.

    • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with deprecate , which means 'to disapprove of'. The meaning of deprecate'' has lately been encroaching on ''depreciate in the sense 'to belittle'.

    Synonyms

    * (reduce in value over time) * (belittle) do down

    Antonyms

    * (reduce in value over time) appreciate * (belittle) aggrandise/aggrandize, big up (slang)

    disparagement

    English

    (wikipedia disparagement)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of disparaging, of belittling.
    • His disparagement of his opponent failed to dissuade voters.

    Related terms

    * disparage

    See also

    * belittlement * denigration