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Odium vs Detraction - What's the difference?

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Odium is a related term of detraction.


As nouns the difference between odium and detraction

is that odium is hatred; dislike while detraction is the act of detracting something, or something detracted.

odium

English

Noun

(-)
  • Hatred; dislike.
    • His conduct brought him into odium''', or, brought '''odium upon him.
  • The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
  • * Dryden
    • She threw the odium of the fact on me.

    Related terms

    * odious ----

    detraction

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia detraction)
  • The act of detracting something, or something detracted.
  • A derogatory or malicious statement; a disparagement, misrepresentation or slander.
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • If indeed we consider all the frivolous and petulant discourse, the impertinent chattings, the rash censures, the spiteful detractions which are so rife in the world
  • (Roman Catholic Church ) The act of revealing previously unknown faults of another person to a third person.

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