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self-humiliation noun[ U ] (alsoselfhumiliation)uk /ˌself.hjuːˌmɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌself.hjuː.mɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/ the act of intentionally doing things that make you feel ashamed or lose other people's respect: When you write this kind of newspaper column, you have to have a high tolerance for self-humiliation. People are prepared to subject themselves to total self-humiliation in order to appear on television. With biting humourand painfully honest self-humiliation, he describes his journey into the hell of addiction. Self-humiliation, by asking for pardon or forgiveness, can restore a social hierarchy and authority relationships. It seems the only way they can relate to one another is if they engage in mutual abasement and self-humiliation. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Humiliating and degrading abase abasement be under a cloudidiom bring/take someone down a peg (or two)idiom bruise someone's egoidiom disgraced dishonour dishonourable dishonourably doghouse ignoble ignobly ignominious ignominiously ignominy shoddily shoddiness shoddy stoop stoop to something |