Contempt is defined as viewing another as worthless or deserving scorn.

“Contempt of course by definition is the feeling that a person or thing is beneath consideration, worthlessness or deserving scorn. The runs counter to all of the neural circuits, all three of the neural circuits that we talked about before. It certainly is um it is the antithesis of empathy. It is anything but a positive delusion. It's really looking at the other individual either accurately or inaccurately as somebody that you kind of despise. And then it is an absolute inversion of the autonomic seesaw matching that I was talking about before.”