Humiliation

Noun

 * 1) The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
 * 2) The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

Synonyms

 * abasement
 * dishonor
 * embarrassment
 * humbling
 * shame, shaming

Related terms

 * humble
 * humiliate
 * humiliating
 * humility

Adjectives for Humiliation
painful; jovial; utter; imagined; frequent; just; ineffable; anticipated; profound; deep; unmerited; subsequent.

Verbs for Humiliation
bow in—; break in—; deserve—; end in— expose to—; incur—; inure to—; invite— go down in—; kneel in—; overcome with— pretend—; purchase by—; resign to—; sink in—; submit to—; suffer—; walk in—; — humbles; —shames; —tortures.

Thesaurus
abasement, affront, aspersion, atrocity, awkwardness, belittlement, breaking, brickbat, burning shame, byword, byword of reproach, comedown, conquering, contempt, contumely, crushing, cut, cut direct, debasement, deflation, degradation, depreciation, derogation, descent, despite, detraction, dirty shame, disconcertedness, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, disregard, domestication, dump, embarrassment, enormity, flout, flouting, gentling, gibe, hangdog look, humbled pride, humbling, ignominy, indignity, injury, insult, jeer, jeering, letdown, low-down dirty shame, mock, mockery, mortification, obloquy, offense, outrage, put-down, quelling, rebuff, reduction, reproach, repulse, scandal, scoff, scurrility, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-diminishment, setdown, shame, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shaming, slight, sneer, sniff, snort, snub, spurn, spurning, subdual, suppression, taming, taunt, the cold shoulder, the go-by, treading down, uncomplimentary remark

Etymology
< humiliatio: < humiliare:; see humiliate.

Translations

 * Arabic: إذلال
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 羞辱, 恥辱,  耻辱,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:, Erniedrigung


 * Indonesian: penghinaan
 * Japanese:, 汚辱
 * Norwegian: ydmykelse
 * Polish:
 * Russian: унижение
 * Serbian: понижавање
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: förödmjukelse
 * Volapük: mükükam


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:, Erniedrigung
 * Indonesian: penghinaan


 * Norwegian: ydmykelse
 * Polish:
 * Russian: унижение
 * Serbian: понижeње
 * Swedish: förödmjukelse

Etymology
From humilier 'to humiliate' (itself from humiliare, from humilis 'humble') + -ation

Noun

 * 1) A humiliation, active or passive
 * ''Alors que l'humiliation d'une fessée cul-nu en présence du petit frère qu'il a abusé blesse l'orgueil de Pascal pire que sa peau, assister à son humiliation répare la fierté du petit
 * ''While the humiliation of a bare-butt spanking in the presence of the kid brother he had abused hurts Pascal's pride worse then his hide, witnessing his humbling restores the kid's pride

Synonyms

 * abaissement

Related terms

 * humiliant