Bullying vs. Harassment

Bullyingnoun

An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.

Harassmentnoun

Persistent attacks and criticism causing worry and distress.

Bullyingnoun

Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.

‘Bullying is a punishable offense in schools.’;

Harassmentnoun

Deliberate pestering or annoying.

Bullying

Noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others.

Harassmentnoun

Excessive intimidation.

Bullyingnoun

the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something

Harassmentnoun

The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.

‘Little harassments which I am led to suspect do occasionally molest the most fortunate.’;

Bullyingadjective

noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others

Harassmentnoun

a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented;

‘so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors’;

Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, coercion, hurtful teasing or threat, to abuse, aggressively dominate or intimidate. The behavior is often repeated and habitual.

Harassmentnoun

the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism

Harassment

Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates or embarrasses a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness.