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Disdain vs Mundane - What's the difference?

disdain | mundane |

As nouns the difference between disdain and mundane

is that disdain is a feeling of contempt or scorn while mundane is an unremarkable, ordinary human being.

As a verb disdain

is to regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.

As an adjective mundane is

worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly.

disdain

English

Noun

(-)
  • (uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
    • The cat viewed the cheap supermarket catfood with disdain and stalked away.
  • * William Shakespeare, Much ado about Nothing :
    • Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes.
  • (obsolete) That which is worthy to be disdained or regarded with contempt and aversion.
  • * Spenser
    • Most loathsome, filthy, foul, and full of vile disdain .
  • (obsolete) The state of being despised; shame.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * condescension, contempt, scorn * See also

    Derived terms

    * disdainful

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To regard (someone or something) with strong contempt.
  • * Bible, 1 Sam. xvii. 42
    • When the Philistine saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth.
  • * The Qur'an, trans. , verse 170
  • *:The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, is but the apostle of God and His Word, […] The Messiah doth surely not disdain' to be a servant of God, nor do the angels who are nigh to Him ; and whosoever '''disdains''' His service and is too proud, He will gather them altogether to Himself. But as for those who believe and do what is right, He will pay their hire and will give increase to them of His grace. But as for those who ' disdain and are too proud, He will punish them with a grievous woe, and they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.}}
  • (obsolete) To be indignant or offended.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXI:
    • When the chefe prestes and scribes sawe, the marveylles that he dyd [...], they desdayned , and sayde unto hym: hearest thou what these saye?

    Synonyms

    * contemn * See also

    mundane

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • worldly, earthly, profane, vulgar as opposed to heavenly
  • Pertaining to the Universe, cosmos or physical reality, as opposed to the spiritual world.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
    • Amongst mundane bodies, six there are that do perpetually move, and they are the six Planets; of the rest, that is, of the Earth, Sun, and fixed Stars, it is disputable which of them moveth, and which stands still.
  • ordinary; not new
  • tedious; repetitive and boring

    • Synonyms

    * (of the earth) worldly * banal, boring, commonplace, everyday, routine, workaday, jejune

    Antonyms

    * heavenly * arcane

    References

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unremarkable, ordinary human being.
  • (slang, derogatory, in various subcultures) A person considered to be "normal", part of the mainstream culture, outside the subculture, not part of the elite group.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1959 , date = December 1 , first = Ron , last = Bennett , authorlink = , magazine = Skyrack , title = , url = http://www.gostak.co.uk/skyrack/SKYRACK10.htm , volume = , issue = 10 , page = , passage = THE LIVERPOOL PARTY at Pat and Frank Milnes’ celebrated both the Gunpowder Plot and the Liverpool Club’s 400th and something meeting. Two mundane and non-fan friends of the hosts - women, too - played brag all night and Norman Weedall disappeared at 3 a.m. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1989 , date = Spring , first = Lawrence , last = Person , authorlink = , magazine = , title = Fear and Loathing in New Orleans: A Savage Journey Into the Heart of American Fandom , url = , volume = 2 , issue = 3 (whole number
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    • , page = 10 , passage = The Demon Barber and I played Shock the Mundanes . The door would open up and we would start a sentence in mid-imaginary conversation, like—‘Of course, they never found the body.’ }}
  • * 1996 , "Angel of Death", furries vs. mundanes'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''alt.fan.furry )
    • Some people just think your (SIC) a sicko or something for enjoying the art. I know that alot (SIC) of the time, I would rather see some nice nude furrygirls instead of pictures of nude mundanes .
  • (fandom slang) The world outside fandom; the normal, mainstream world.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1966 , date = November , first = Lee , last = Hoffman , authorlink = , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , title = Our Authors , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy4-34.html , volume = , issue = 4 , page = 35 , passage = Long famed in fandom, Mr. Bloch skyrocketed to prominence in the mundane when his autobiographical novel, PSYCHO, was made into a hit motion picture. }}

    Synonyms

    * (ordinary person) See * (mainstream person) See

    Derived terms

    * mundanely * mundaneness * mundanity

    See also

    * (pedialite) Article on the use of “mundane” as a derogatory term.

    Anagrams

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