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Patronizing vs Didactic - What's the difference?

patronizing | didactic |

As adjectives the difference between patronizing and didactic

is that patronizing is offensively condescending while didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.

As a verb patronizing

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun didactic is

a treatise on teaching or education.

patronizing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • offensively condescending

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)

    • didactic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * didactick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • * Macaulay
    • The finest didactic poem in any language.
  • Excessively moralizing.
  • (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

    • Derived terms

    * didact * didactical * didactically * didacticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.