What is derision?

What Does derision Mean

It is known as mockery to mockery is carried out in order to insult, embarrass or humiliate someone . The etymological root of the term is found in the Germanic word skernjan .

For example: "Entrepreneurs who take advantage of an emergency situation to raise prices deserve a derision" , "When the news broke , the president of the club was exposed to public derision" , "School bullying is a derision that we must banish of all educational establishments ” .
Mockery is characterized by aggressiveness , even if it is symbolic. Its purpose is to provoke an affront to the recipient, making him look ridiculous or in a negative position on a social level.

One of the intentions of derision, therefore, is to damage the public image . In this sense, derision often seeks to be instructive : for the affected person, who will not want to go through the same thing again; and for other people , who will not want to be in that situation.
Suppose an experienced footballer claims money owed to him by his club . The president of the institution, disgusted with this claim, decides to give him a mockery and sends the professional to train with the lower divisions (the quarry). He also publicly states that the athlete will return to the professional team when he is "more mature" and knows how to "understand reality . " With this measure, the leader punishes whoever made the claim and shows the rest of the players what will happen to them if they complain about working conditions.
If we refer to a dictionary of synonyms, we find quite a few terms that can be used instead of derision , as well as others that provide us with information about their meaning in more depth. Among the most relevant we can point out the following: insult , mockery, mockery, affront , offense, insult, contempt, humiliation, insult and humiliation . On the other hand we have the antonyms praise, praise and praise .
As we can see in the list of synonyms, almost all of them point to an action that is carried out to cause something negative to the person who receives it, usually a great shame that is deeply engraved thanks to the force with which it is performs and the fact that there are usually more people present.
This brings us once again to the concept of public derision , which in some way can be seen in the example of the footballer who demands the payment of a late amount from those in charge of his club and instead receives a kind of lesson that also warns the other players of what can happen to them if they follow the same path.

An expression that has practically the same meaning as public derision is to pillory . On the one hand, we must define the concept of a pillory : it was a factory or stone column that was placed at the entrance of certain towns and on which the heads of prisoners or those executed were exhibited. That said, let's think that when someone exposes another person publicly because of their mistake to make them ashamed and everyone around them finds out about the situation, they do not do something very different than hang their head in a square.
Despite the fact that the practice of the pillory has not been carried out for centuries, since it dates especially from the Middle Ages , this expression continues to appear in various publications and, although to a lesser extent, in everyday speech.
Finally, “Scorn of Christ” is the name of a painting that the German artist Matthias Grünewald painted at the beginning of the 16th century . At present, the work is exhibited in the city of Berlin .