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Synonyms for humility

noun

meekness, timidity, self-abasement, self-abnegation, submissiveness, servility, obsequiousness, mortification, reserve, lowliness, demureness, unobtrusiveness, subservience, subjection, humbleness, submission, abasement, diffidence, self-effacement, fawning, obedience, passiveness, nonresistance, resignation, bashfulness, shyness, timorousness, inferiority complex; see also docility, modesty 1.

Antonyms pride*, vainglory, conceit.

See humility in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


noun

Lack of vanity or self-importance:

humbleness, lowliness, meekness, modesty. See attitude, big, self-love

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