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Tantrum vs Petulance - What's the difference?

tantrum | petulance |

As nouns the difference between tantrum and petulance

is that tantrum is an often childish display or fit of bad temper while petulance is the property of being petulant.

tantrum

English

(wikipedia tantrum)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An often childish display or fit of bad temper.
    • Many parents become embarrassed by their children throwing tantrums in public places.
    Baby Shawn threw a tantrum when he was told the bicycle was not his.

    Synonyms

    * (childish display of bad temper) dummy spit, hissy fit

    See also

    * conniption * drama * fit * huff * make a scene * meltdown * passion * temper * throw one's toys out of the pram

    petulance

    English

    Noun

  • The property of being petulant.
  • * Clarendon
    • Like pride in some, and like petulance in others.
  • * Cowper
    • The lowering eye, the petulance , the frown.
  • * 1857 , , Volume the Second, page 29 (ISBN 1857150570)
    • She had not done this, but had shown herself angry and sore, and was now ashamed of her own petulance , and yet unable to discontinue it.