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卑しみ (いやしみ, iyashimi) Japanese meaning: contempt | Kotomora
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Related words 軽けい 蔑べつ 軽蔑 is the common, everyday word for contempt or scorn. 卑しみ is more literary and emphasizes a sense of baseness or vulgarity in the object of contempt.
侮あなど り 侮り focuses on underestimation or looking down on someone's ability, whereas 卑しみ is more about moral or social contempt.
Etymology Derived from the adjective 卑しい (いやしい, 'base, lowly, greedy') with the nominalizing suffix み, which turns adjectives into nouns expressing a quality or state. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the form follows a common pattern in Japanese.
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その 発はつ 言げん に は 、 弱じゃく 者しゃ へ の 卑いや しみ が 感かん じ られ た 。
One could sense a disdain for the weak in that remark.
