Indignity vs Outrage - What's the difference?
indignity | outrage | Related terms |
degradation, debasement or humiliation
an affront to one's dignity or pride
An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
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, title=
, chapter=1 An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
The resentful anger aroused by such acts.
(obsolete) A destructive rampage.
To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
* Atterbury
* Broome
(archaic) To violate; to rape (a female).
(obsolete) To rage in excess of.
As nouns the difference between indignity and outrage
is that indignity is degradation, debasement or humiliation while outrage is an excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.As a verb outrage is
to cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.indignity
English
Noun
(indignities)outrage
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“There the cause of death was soon ascertained?; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”}}
- "by the outrage and fury of the river " (from an old description of flood damage).
Verb
(outrag)- Base and insolent minds outrage men when they have hope of doing it without a return.
- This interview outrages all decency.
- (Young)