self-effacement
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8.3
- noun
- /ˌsɛlf ɪˈfeɪsmənt/
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autoevacuación
- Her self-effacement was evident during the presentation, as she allowed her team members to take the spotlight.
Examples
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As Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff notes, "patience, sorrow, self-effacement, until today have never prevented war and will not do so in the future either."
Academic text (1997) -
Whereas the king had brutishly usurped power, Washington declined it in a gesture that is a monument to civility's gentle self-effacement.
Academic text (2009) -
As for the cultural differences in self-esteem ratings, self-effacement is unlikely to have any influence.
Academic text (1992) -
The issues of wifely obedience and self-effacement in marriage are also pretty much alive.
Academic text (1995) -
We can begin reading the poem by examining the conflict pointed out by Rose between self-assertion and self-effacement.
Fiction book (1996) -
I do not mean to glamorize a self-effacement that may accurately register limited accomplishments.
Academic text (1991) -
In its initiating step, reading must be less an act of self-assertion than of self-effacement, or rather, an act of self-opening.
Academic text (2001) -
In a recent memoir about Merton, Song for Nobody, Ron Seitz recalls Merton's saying that at the core of all his later work are self-effacement and compassion.
Academic text (1993) -
Reverend Streatfield's speech on the possibilities of collective identity becomes shaded with an irony that intensifies the reverend's own self-effacement of his interpretative authority.
Academic text (2017) -
The little Kasarmikatu bar was jammed with Finns methodically transiting from modest self-effacement to chest-pounding, no-brakes bravado.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
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8.6
Making yourself less noticeable in a group or place
Not attracting attention so people do not notice you
Being modest and not showing off
Being humble and not showing pride in yourself
Antonyms
- Formal
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9.9
Trying to make yourself seem more important or powerful than you are
How Modest
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3.5
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- Formal
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9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-effacement = self + effacement (transparent) = self + efface + ment
The meaning is directly built from 'self' + 'effacement' (efface + -ment) and clearly denotes making oneself inconspicuous.
Etymology
Self-effacement comes from self and efface ('to erase' or make less visible). It describes a person who 'erases' their own presence, so they do not draw attention to themselves.