As nouns the difference between outcast and pariah
is that outcast is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah while pariah is an outcast.
As a verb outcast
is to cast out; to banish.
As an adjective outcast
is that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
outcast
English
Verb
To cast out; to banish.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
- All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].
Adjective
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en adjective)
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
* Longfellow
- Outcast , rejected.
Synonyms
* (pariah) outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar
* See also
Derived terms
* social outcast
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pariah
Noun
(
en noun)
An outcast.
A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
Someone in exile.
A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
A person who is rejected (from society or home).
Quotations
* 2014 : (Sylvia Ann Hewlett), (Executive Presence), Prologue
*: I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah , since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know.
* 1985 — , The Two Doctors , p 14
*: ‘I’m a pariah , outlawed from Time Lord society.’
* 1842 — , The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/fitz/preface.html])
*: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.
Synonyms
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Related terms
* pop culture pariah
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