humiliation
- noun
- /hjuːˌmɪl.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
- Offensive
- In their BDSM scene, she found pleasure in the consensual humiliation of her partner.
- humiliation rituals
This sort of humiliation and shame can sometimes be part of the sort of the fetish.
- This sort of humiliation and shame can sometimes be part of the sort of the fetish.
- He says that how can one have the slightest respect for a man who tries to find pleasure in the feeling of humiliation itself?
- Yeah, when you enter into to that kind of space, it's, you know, humiliation is perhaps the biggest fall.
- Why that would ruin there's people are into like humiliation, like they like being, you know, there's men who like to be like.
Examples
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I mean, sure, we'd have fun, roll around, get into some erotic humiliation fantasy.
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We may indeed, with propriety, be said to have reached almost the last stage of national humiliation.
Academic text (1993) -
See if they have public humiliation on the menu.
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"Or do you prefer a position of humiliation?" she asked.
Fiction book (2002) -
Unfounded public humiliation is really hard for anyone, especially a child.
Blog text (27) -
A crown that turned a symbol of rule and power into a symbol of humiliation, vulnerability, and contempt.
Blog text (13) -
She knows only too well the kind of games you like to play, the kind of humiliation you enjoy inflicting on other people.
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She refuses to use sexual humiliation as an interrogation technique.
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We've been through, you and I, too many of these two-in-the-morning scenes of mutual humiliation and disgust to think they can change our lives.
Fiction book (1993) -
Odili's inability to admit his sexual humiliation forces him to distort Elsie's role in the novel.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
A feeling of deep shame when people treat you as unimportant
How Humiliating
- Offensive
- Offensive
- Offensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Humiliation comes from the Latin humilis, meaning 'low', the same root as humble. A helpful way to remember erotic humiliation is to think of role-play where people who both agree use the idea of feeling 'low' or embarrassed to create sexual excitement.