derision /dɪˈɹɪʒən/ noun2 •Act of treating with disdain.There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed. — 1969 •Something to be derided; a laughing stock.Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […] — 1847 formsderisions