Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "self-effacement" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-EFFACEMENT

self-effacement play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-EFFACEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Effacement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SELF-EFFACEMENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of self-effacement in the English dictionary

The definition of self-effacement in the dictionary is the act of making oneself, one's actions, etc, inconspicuous, esp because of humility or timidity.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-EFFACEMENT

self-educated
self-education
self-effacing
self-effacingly
self-elected
self-employed
self-employment
self-esteem
self-evaluation
self-evidence
self-evident
self-evidently
self-examination
self-examining
self-excited
self-exculpatory
self-executing
self-existence
self-existent
self-explaining

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-EFFACEMENT

advertisement
agreement
announcement
apartment
arrangement
basement
element
enforcement
engagement
implement
improvement
infringement
management
measurement
movement
placement
replacement
requirement
retirement
statement
supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of self-effacement in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-effacement» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF SELF-EFFACEMENT

Find out the translation of self-effacement to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-effacement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-effacement» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自谦
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

modestia
570 millions of speakers

English

self-effacement
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वयं नष्ट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطمس الذاتي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

самоуничижение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

abnegação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আত্মবিলোপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´effacement de soi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diri sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zurückhaltung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己消失
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 effacement
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pamindhahan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự lu mờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய அழிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची हटवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendini geri planda kalma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

abnegazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skromność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

самоприниження
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

smeririi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταπεινοφροσύνης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- uitwissing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självutplåning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selvutslettelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-effacement

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-EFFACEMENT»

The term «self-effacement» is normally little used and occupies the 128.143 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Little used
40
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «self-effacement» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of self-effacement
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «self-effacement».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-EFFACEMENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «self-effacement» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «self-effacement» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-effacement

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-EFFACEMENT»

Discover the use of self-effacement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-effacement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Communicating Across Cultures
Self-Enhancement and Self-Effacement Verbal Styles The self-enhancement verbal style emphasizes the importance of boasting about one's accomplishments and abilities. The self-effacement verbal style, on the other hand, emphasizes the ...
Stella Ting-Toomey, 2012
2
The Psychology of Personality: Viewpoints, Research, and ...
... styles described by Horney (1945). These coping styles were labeled self- effacement, need for mastery, and resignation. ... by. Becoming. Dependent. Bergam et al. characterized patients in the self- effacement group by their dependency on ...
Bernardo J. Carducci, 2009
3
Rare Messages From Shri Shirdi Sai Baba As God
Self-effacement is the flower of perfection. Egotism is the bane of life. It is the devil in man, masquerading as Virtue. It is the negation of life of the spirit. It is the monarch of ignorance. It leads to strifes, animosities, vulgarities, insipid strivings  ...
M.K. Yogi, 2006
4
New Testament Theology: Exploring Diversity and Unity
on the privileges of his godly status, but he did not consider that status something to be clutched or grasped for his own advantage.13 In the second strophe (B), the hymn points to Christ's first act of self-effacement. The one who was in “the ...
Frank J. Matera, 2007
5
Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology
The physician's patient-directed concern becomes a concrete reality, rather than a possibility, when four fundamental virtues characterize the physician: self- effacement, self-sacrifice, compassion, and integrity. They are thus the individually ...
Laurence B. McCullough, Frank A. Chervenak, 1994
6
Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in ...
If self-effacement is a condition of knowing, then why were women, understood by the Victorians to be the self-effacing “sex,” excluded from science? Women were maternal, admired for their capacity for self-surrender, expected to make their ...
George Levine, 2010
7
Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Synthesis of Science ...
three corresponding modes or conditions of selfhood, namely, (1) Surprise and Bewilderment (2) Self-Effacement: and (3) Self- Regeneration at a higher level. Buddhist Nirvana takes one to the stage of self- effacement, but light is not thrown  ...
J. I. Laliwala, 2005
8
Helping and Healing: Religious Commitment in Health Care
The most distinctive characteristic of a healing relationship motivated by the Christian perspective is the higher degree of self-effacement it requires as a matter of course. Even on strictly philosophical grounds, the vulnerability of the sick ...
Edmund D. Pellegrino, David C. Thomasma, 1997
9
An Ethics of Becoming: Configurations of Feminine ...
The effect of the self-effacement is a promotion for Bronte rather than an actual disappearance as much as her heroine's self—concealment facilitates revelation rather than oblivion. The notion of self-effacement as self-concealment does not ...
San Jeong Cho, 2014
10
Chinese PhD Thesis Acknowledgements: A Communities of ...
Example 7.3 (WE0501) Among the four less frequently used moves, the use of a self- effacement move was noteworthy because six World Economics students used it whereas only one from Classic Chinese used it. No one from Computer ...
Hua Peng, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-EFFACEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-effacement is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Curious Case Of The Missing 'I'
Are we developing a culture of self-effacement? I worry that it reflects just how flat-out crazed we are, too time-starved either to write complete sentences or to ... «WBUR, Jul 15»
2
But seriously ... Trump is a farce to be reckoned with
Trump reacted to his rising political status with typical self-effacement and modesty, saying that "politicians are all talk and no action and the American public is ... «Orlando Sentinel, Jul 15»
3
Dornan thought "Hottest Hunk" title was a mistake
But that's his usual modest self-effacement coming through.'' Dornan is currently filming Richie Smyth's Jadotville and has season three of The Fall and Fifty ... «RTE.ie, May 15»
4
The Case Against Competing
With characteristic charming Midwestern self-effacement, the Great Investor waxed happy about a recent acquisition, the Buffalo Evening News. He loved the ... «blogs.hbr.org, May 15»
5
Review: Midge Ure rolls out the classics and reels in the audience in …
Ure proceeded to work through so many of the classic Ultravox singles - and this generous survey of his career was delivered with a fine line in self-effacement. «Waikato Times, Apr 15»
6
A cultural shift from self-effacement to self-expression: David Brooks
The contrast between these two men symbolizes a broader shift from a culture of self-effacement, which says, "I'm no better than anybody else and nobody is ... «OregonLive.com, Apr 15»
7
What Would Chekhov Really Think of Twitter?
Sharonlee McLean is a delightful bundle of neuroses and self-effacement as Sonia, and Carol Halstead embodies the attention-starved minor celebrity as ... «Portland Monthly, Jan 15»
8
Booker T Jones at Ronnie Scott's, W1
Self-effacement is not exactly the default mode in the pop world. Performers are expected to be the biggest, the noisiest, the nastiest. Booker T Jones prefers to ... «The Times, Jan 15»
9
FPJ docu vividly captures screen icon's well-rounded persona
... his insistence that crew and extras be treated as well as everybody else on shoots, and his being the soul of self-effacement, despite his superstar status. «Inquirer.net, Jan 15»
10
3 Thoughts on Nadine Gordimer's Death
She cannot quite accept the strictures of his backward society, so she chooses a different form of the self-effacement she desires, embracing the desert itself. «Breitbart News, Jul 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Self-Effacement [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-effacement>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z