Insolence vs Scorn - What's the difference?

Insolence is a related term of scorn.

As nouns the difference between insolence and scorn

is that insolence is arrogant conduct; insulting, bold behaviour or attitude while scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain.

As verbs the difference between insolence and scorn

is that insolence is (obsolete) to insult while scorn is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

insolence

English

Noun

Arrogant conduct; insulting, bold behaviour or attitude.

* 5th century BCE, ,

Wit is well-bred insolence .

Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.

* Fuller

Loaded with fetters and insolences from the soldiers.

(obsolete) The quality of being unusual or novel.

(Spenser)

Derived terms

* insolency

Verb

(insolenc)

(obsolete) To insult.

(Eikon Basilike)

Anagrams

* ----

scorn

English

Verb

(en verb)

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

* C. J. Smith

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

To scoff, express contempt.

To reject, turn down

He scorned her romantic advances.

To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

She scorned to show weakness.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.

(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

* Dryden

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Usage notes

* Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .

Quotations

* circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — '' * 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.