Mockery vs Neglect - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between mockery and neglect

is that mockery is the action of mocking; ridicule, derision while neglect is the act of neglecting.

to fail to care for or attend to something.

(mockeries)

The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.

Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.

(obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.

Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

* We often use make a mockery' of someone or something, meaning to ' mock them. See also

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(en verb)

(label) To fail to care for or attend to something.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

This, my long suffering and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.

(label) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.

(label) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.

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* benign neglect * neglectful * neglectfully * neglectfulness

The act of neglecting.

The state of being neglected.

Habitual lack of care.

* carelessness * negligence