Self-effacement

Definition: Self-effacement

Self-effacement

Noun

1. Withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous.

Date "self-effacement" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)

Synonym: Self-effacement

Synonym: effacement (n). (additional references)

"Self-effacement" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-effacement" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Language		Translations for "self-effacement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qëndrim në hije. (various references)

Bulgarian		свитост (diffidence), прекалена скромност. (various references)

Chinese		自我轻视 (self-effacing). (various references)

Finnish		kieltäymys (abstinence, self-denial), alttiiksiantavaisuus (sacrifice). (various references)

German		zurückhaltung (aloofness, barrier, bashfulness, caution, diffidence, dullness, reserve, restraint, restrictor bar, retention, retentiveness, reticence). (various references)

Hungarian		önmegtagadás (abnegation, self denial, self sacrifice, self-denial, self-renunciation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無我 (selflessness, self-renunciation), 三昧 (absorption, concentration). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		さ�"まい (absorption, comedy, concentration), むが (selflessness, self-renunciation). (various references)

Korean		무아경. (various references)

Pig Latin		elf-effacementsay

Russian		самоуничижение (self-humiliation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skromnost (diffidence, graven image, moderation, modesty). (various references)

Spanish		humildad (humility, lowliness, meanness). (various references)

Swedish		självmord (self-destruction, self-humiliation, suicide). (various references)

Ukranian		прагнення триматися осторонь. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự lánh mình, sự khiêm tốn (humility), sự không thích xuất đầu lộ diện. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Self-effacement" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selfeffacement. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-e-f-f-f-l-m-n-s-t"
	-3 letters: effacements.
	-4 letters: effacement.
	-5 letters: selectman, selectmen.
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