abasement

abasement

English

Etymology

abase +‎ -ment. Compare French abaissement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbeɪs.mənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsmənt

Noun

abasement (countable and uncountable, plural abasements)

1. The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low. [Mid 16^th century.][1][2]
2. The state of being abased or humbled; humiliation. [Mid 16^th century.][1][2]
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     He was wearing cavalry twill trousers and a buff crew-neck sweater. The effect was of symbolic abasement mixed with military resolve […]

Synonyms

synonyms of "abasement"

• abjection
• debasement
• degeneracy
• degeneration
• degradation
• depravation
• depression
• deterioration
• discredit
• dishonor
• fall
• humiliation
• lowering
• perversion
• reduction
• shame
• subserviency
• vitiation

Antonyms

antonyms of "abasement"

• aggrandizement
• dignity
• elevation
• exaltation
• honor
• promotion
• reputation
• repute
• standing
• supremacy

Derived terms

• self-abasement

Translations

the act of abasing

Arabic: ذُلّ‎ m (ḏull) Egyptian Arabic: ذل‎ m (zull) Bulgarian: унижение (bg) (uniženie), понижение (bg) (poniženie) Catalan: humiliació (ca) f, degradació f Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏗᎾᏅᎡᏁᎲ (eladinanvenehv) Dutch: vernedering (nl), kleinering m Esperanto: malaltigo, humiligo Finnish: alennus (fi), alennustila (fi), nöyryytys (fi) French: humiliation (fr) f German: Erniedrigung (de) f Greek: εξευτελισμός (el) m (exeftelismós), υποβίβαση (el) f (ypovívasi), ταπείνωση (el) f (tapeínosi) Icelandic: auðmýking f, lítillækkun f Ido: abaso (io), humiligo (io) Interlingua: abassamento (ia) Irish: náiriú m, uirísliú m Manx: injillid m Maori: whakamā Portuguese: rebaixe, humilhação (pt), aviltamento (pt) Romanian: înjosire (ro) f, degradare (ro) f, umilire (ro) f Russian: униже́ние (ru) n (unižénije) Spanish: rebajamiento (es) m, abatimiento (es) m, humillación (es) m Welsh: darostyngiad m, iselhad m

References

1. Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 2.
2. Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abasement”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2.

• abasement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• abasement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• entamebas