Insult vs. Humiliation — What's the Difference?

An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental.

State of disgrace or loss of self-respect

To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.

Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It is an emotion felt by a person whose social status, either by force or willingly, has just decreased.

To affront or demean

The act of humiliating; degradation.

(Obsolete) To make an attack on.

The state of being humiliated or disgraced; shame.

To behave arrogantly.

A humiliating condition or circumstance.

An insulting remark or act.

The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.

(Medicine) A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.

The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

Something that causes injury, irritation, or trauma

The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.

(transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).

The state of being humiliated, humbled, or reduced to lowliness or submission.

To assail, assault, or attack; to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.

Strong feelings of embarrassment

To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).

An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect;

To leap or trample upon.

Depriving one of self-esteem

(uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.

(countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).

Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.

An assault or attack; an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.

An act of leaping upon.

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.

An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.

To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

To leap or jump.

To behave with insolence; to exult.

A rude expression intended to offend or hurt;

A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront;

Treat, mention, or speak to rudely;