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Mistreatment vs Persecution - What's the difference?

mistreatment | persecution |

As nouns the difference between mistreatment and persecution

is that mistreatment is improper treatment, abuse while persecution is persecution.

mistreatment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Improper treatment, abuse.
  • :The warranty was voided because the product experienced mistreatment during shipment, it hadn't been padded at all.
  • :There are severe allegations of mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, of actual toture.

    • Synonyms

    *maltreatment

    persecution

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of persecuting.
  • A program or campaign to subjugate or eliminate a specific group of people, often based on race, religion, sexuality, or social beliefs.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=(Jan Sapp) , title=Race Finished , volume=100, issue=2, page=164 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution . But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?}}