Humility

Noun

 * 1) The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in spirit and deportment.

Related terms

 * humble
 * humiliate
 * humiliation
 * humus

Adjectives for Humility
proud; abrupt; deep; profound; singular; matchless; laughable; egotistic; mock; vast; mild; utmost; true; provoking; apparent; shamed; cringing; honest; servile; false; respectable; marked; passionate.

Verbs for Humility
—accept with—; affect—; breathe—; commend —; feign—; fill with—; gown in—; practice—; relish—; submit with—; walk with —; —contents; —satisfies; —tempers.

Thesaurus
Quakerism, acquiescence, altruism, amenability, back seat, bashfulness, commitment, compliance, consecration, dedication, devotion, diffidence, disinterest, disinterestedness, dovelikeness, gentleness, humbleness, inferiority, juniority, lamblikeness, lowliness, meekness, mildness, minority, modesty, nonresistance, nonviolent resistance, obedience, passive resistance, passiveness, passivity, peaceableness, quietism, quietness, resignation, sacrifice, second fiddle, second string, secondariness, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, servility, shyness, subjection, submission, submissiveness, subordinacy, subordination, subservience, tameness, third string, timidity, timorousness, unacquisitiveness, unambitiousness, unassumingness, unboastfulness, uncomplainingness, unobtrusiveness, unpossessiveness, unpresumptuousness, unpretentiousness, unselfishness

Etymology
< humilite: <  umilité: <  humilitas: < humilis:; see humble:.

Related to humus:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 謙卑, 谦卑
 * Czech:
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 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: hógværð, auðmýkt
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
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 * Old Provençal:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: poniznost, skromnost, smernost, skrušenost
 * Slovene: ponižnost
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: ఒద్దిక (oddika)
 * Volapük: mük