Contempt and Disdain, the difference
Contempt is cool dismissal: someone is beneath your regard. Disdain is cold superiority mixed with that dismissal.
Each in a line
Contempt
Contempt is cool dismissal, the sense that someone is beneath your regard. One corner of the mouth raises and the gaze cools. Anger says this is wrong; contempt says this is beneath me. Research links it strongly to relationship failure.
Disgust family
Disdain
Disdain is cold superiority mixed with dismissal. The chest holds a cool quality and the face shows an elevated, dismissive expression. The target seems beneath your engagement. You dismiss rather than engage, looking down from a raised stance.
Disgust family
Pleasantness and energy
Where each lives in the body
Contempt
Face
Heat, flush, expression building
Head
Lightness
Disdain
Face
Heat, flush, expression building
Head
Pressure, fullness, mental load
How long they last
Duration has not been measured for these words.
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