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Scorn vs Misappreciation - What's the difference?

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Scorn is a synonym of misappreciation.


As nouns the difference between scorn and misappreciation

is that scorn is (uncountable) contempt or disdain while misappreciation is a failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.

As a verb scorn

is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

scorn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.
  • * C. J. Smith
  • We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.
  • To scoff, express contempt.
  • To reject, turn down
  • He scorned her romantic advances.
  • To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.
  • She scorned to show weakness.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

  • (uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
  • (countable) A display of disdain; a slight.
  • * Dryden
  • Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.
  • (countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.
  • * Bible, Psalms xliv. 13
  • Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

    Usage notes

    * Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .

    Quotations

    * circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — '' * 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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    Derived terms

    * scornful

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    misappreciation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A failure to correctly and completely understand; an incorrect notion or belief that is a result of such a failure.
  • It is the duty of the individual juror to strive to avoid any misappreciation of the evidence, no matter how it is represented by the barristers.
    Although he claims to be a postmodernist, his misappreciation of the philosophy is such that he still clings to the idea of absolute truth.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1849, author=Alexis de Tocqueville, title=Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Vol. 2, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I accuse you rather of misappreciation than of misstatement. }}
  • *{{quote-book, 1995, Alan J. Levine, The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia, 1945-1975 citation
  • , passage=The notion that keeping half a million men in South Vietnam indefinitely was a credible posture must be one of the most laughable misappreciations of the war.}}
  • (dated) An observed failure to appreciate the proper worth of a person, an act or a thing.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1871, author=William Dean Howells, title=Their Wedding Journey, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="He might not have meant to ignore her," answered Isabel thoughtfully; "he might have chosen not to introduce her because he felt too proud of her to subject her to any possible misappreciation from them." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1909, author=Anna Katharine Green, title=The Forsaken Inn, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=But it is the lot of goodness and truth ever to meet with misappreciation and disdain. }}

    Synonyms

    *(failure to understand) misunderstanding, misapprehension; error, mistake *(failure to appreciate) scorn, disdain, despisement