Derision
noun
noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Act of treating with disdain. countable, uncountable
"There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed."
- 2 the act of deriding or treating with contempt wordnet
- 3 Something to be derided; a laughing stock. countable, uncountable
"Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]"
- 4 contemptuous laughter wordnet
Example
More examples"There are quite a few ways to express derision in Esperanto."
Etymology
From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").