different between derision vs hatred

English

Etymology

From Old French derision, from Latin d?r?si?nem, accusative of d?r?si?, from d?r?d?re ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??????n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

derision (countable and uncountable, plural derisions)

1. Act of treating with disdain.
2. Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 14:

     Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]

Related terms

• deride
• derider
• ridicule
• ridiculous
• ridiculosity

Translations

Further reading

• derision in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• derision in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ironside, ironised, ironside, resinoid

English

Etymology

From Middle English hatrede, hatreden (“hatred”), from hate (“hate”) + -reden (“suffix denoting state or condition”), equivalent to hate +? -red; compare lovered. Related to Icelandic hatri (“hatred”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?t??d/

Noun

hatred (countable and uncountable, plural hatreds)

1. Strong aversion; intense dislike
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.

     the very circumstance which renders it so innocent is what chiefly exposes it to the public hatred

Usage notes

The noun hatred is not used as a modifier in compound nouns; instead, its synonym hate is used, as, for example, in hate crime.

Synonyms

• hate
• antipathy
• hostility

Antonyms

• love
• amity

Related terms

• hate
• hateful
• disgust

Translations

Anagrams

• Dehart, dareth, dearth, hetdar, thread

Middle English

Noun

hatred

1. Alternative form of hatrede