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Patronizing vs Belittle - What's the difference?

patronizing | belittle |

As verbs the difference between patronizing and belittle

is that patronizing is while belittle is to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.

As an adjective patronizing

is offensively condescending.

patronizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • offensively condescending

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)

    • belittle

    English

    Verb

    (belittl)
  • To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006
    • , author=Mark Steyn , title=America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It , chapter=9 , isbn=0895260786 , page=201 , passage=Under the rules as understood by the New York Times'', the West is free to mock and belittle''' its Judeo-Christian inheritance, and, likewise, the Muslim world is free to mock and ' belittle the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance.}}

    Related terms

    * belittlement

    See also

    * disparage * denigrate * vilipend