Stigma vs Affront - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between stigma and affront

is that stigma is stigma (mark of infamy) while affront is .

(wikipedia stigma)

* (l) (Anglicised long stem) * (l) (Anglicised short stem, obsolete, rare)

(en-noun)

A mark of infamy or disgrace.

A scar or birthmark.

(botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.

a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, ().

* stigmatize

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(wikipedia affront)

(en verb)

To insult intentionally, especially openly.

* Addison

How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?

To meet defiantly; to confront.

to affront death

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:

Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .

(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

* Holland

All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.

* Shakespeare

That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.

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(en noun)

An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

Such behavior is an affront to society.

(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

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