Belittled
What is Belittled?
Made to feel small, stupid, or inferior. Someone has communicated that you are less.
When you might feel belittled
Belittled is a specific form of degraded, which itself is a type of humiliation. You might experience this feeling in situations where humiliation is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define belittled.
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Laughed at rather than with. Used as the object of others' amusement....
Treated as insignificant. Your words, needs, or presence made to seem irrelevant...
Unable to stop what's being done to you. Humiliation often involves a power imba...
Can't escape the situation or the role being forced onto you....
Subject to someone else's judgement, cruelty, or indifference....
Treated as a thing rather than a person. Reduced to a function or a body....