Another word for humility
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Noun
Lack of vanity or self-importance
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Another word for humility
Noun
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- A persistent sense of inadequacy or a tendency to self-diminishment, sometimes resulting in excessive aggressiveness through overcompensation.
- The property of being timorous.
- The quality of being shy; a fear of social interactions.
- The act or an instance of resigning:
- An oral or written statement that one is resigning a position or office:
- Unresisting acceptance of something as inescapable; submission:
- The practice or principle of complete obedience to authority even if unjust or arbitrary.
- The practice or principle of refusing to resort to force even in defense against violence.
- The quality or condition of being obedient.
- The act of obeying.
- A sphere of ecclesiastical authority.
- the practice of keeping oneself in the background and minimizing one's own actions; modest, retiring behavior
- The quality or state of being diffident; timidity or shyness.
- The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low. [Mid 16th century.]
- The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. [Mid 16th century]
- The act or fact of submitting to the power of another:
- The act of submitting something for consideration.
- Something so submitted:
- the state or quality of being subservient
- subservient behavior or manner; obsequiousness; servility
- The state of being unobtrusive.
- The state or quality of being demure.
- The property of being lowly.
- To keep back, as for future use or for a special purpose:
- To set or cause to be set apart for a particular person or use:
- To keep or secure for oneself; retain:
- A feeling of shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
- Discipline of the body and the appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially when undertaken for religious reasons.
- Death or decay of living tissue; gangrene.
- the quality of being obsequious; servile compliance
- The condition of being servile.
- The state or quality of being submissive.
- The setting aside of self-interest for the sake of others or for a belief or principle.
- Degradation or humiliation of oneself, especially because of feelings of guilt or inferiority.
- the quality of being meek
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