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HUMILIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Depriving one of self-esteem
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("humiliation" is a kind of...):
debasement; degradation (changing to a lower state (a less respected state))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "humiliation"):
comedown (decline to a lower status or level)
Derivation:
humiliate (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
Example:
he had to undergo one humiliation after another
Synonyms:
humiliation; mortification
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("humiliation" is a kind of...):
case; example; instance (an occurrence of something)
Derivation:
humiliate (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Strong feelings of embarrassment
Synonyms:
chagrin; humiliation; mortification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("humiliation" is a kind of...):
embarrassment (the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public)
Derivation:
humiliate (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Sense 4
Meaning:
State of disgrace or loss of self-respect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("humiliation" is a kind of...):
disgrace; ignominy; shame (a state of dishonor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "humiliation"):
abasement; abjection; degradation (a low or downcast state)
Derivation:
humiliate (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of)
Context examples:
Fanny began to dread the meeting with her aunts and Tom, under so dreadful a humiliation; and Susan to feel with some anxiety, that all her best manners, all her lately acquired knowledge of what was practised here, was on the point of being called into action.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
An anxiety disorder characterized by agoraphobia in the absence of a history of panic attacks; the individual fears incapacitation or humiliation in open, public places or situations due to panic-like symptoms rather than a full-blown panic attack.
(Agoraphobia without a History of Panic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
With the greatest respect, and the warmest friendship, do I mention Miss Woodhouse; my father perhaps will think I ought to add, with the deepest humiliation.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Holmes was as cool as ever, but I was hot with anger and humiliation.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I cannot allow that there is any humiliation.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A new burst of crying came upon her now, in which she once more hid her face among the stones, and lay before us, a prostrate image of humiliation and ruin.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All my wrongs and humiliations flashed upon me with a dazzling brightness, all that I had suffered and others had suffered at his hands, all the enormity of the man’s very existence.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Yet, how just a humiliation!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
But, whatever might be the distress of Catherine's mind, as she thus advanced towards the parsonage, and whatever the humiliation of her biographer in relating it, she was preparing enjoyment of no everyday nature for those to whom she went; first, in the appearance of her carriage—and secondly, in herself.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
