Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Self-hatred

Definition: Self-hatred

Self-hatred

Noun

1. Shame resulting from strong dislike of yourself or your actions.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "self-hatred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Self-hatred

Synonym: self-disgust (n). (additional references)

Top     

Commercial Usage: Self-hatred

DomainTitle

Books

  • Jewish Self-Hatred (reference)

  • Self-Hatred in Psychoanalysis: Detoxifying the Persecutory Object (reference)

  • Stranger to Self-Hatred (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Usage Frequency: Self-hatred

"Self-hatred" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Self-hatred" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Adjective (general or positive)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Self-hatred

Language Translations for "self-hatred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

怨恨自己. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

自己嫌悪 (self-abhorrence). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

じ"け"お (self-abhorrence). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자기 혐오. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-hatredsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Self-hatred

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-h-l-r-s-t"

-1 letter: deflaters, slathered.

-2 letters: ashlered, deflater, deflates, desalter, draftees, faltered, fathered, feathers, federals, feldsher, haltered, halteres, headrest, lathered, leathers, reflated, reflates, reslated, treadles.

-3 letters: adheres, aethers, afreets, alerted, altered, daleths, dartles, deafest, dealers, dearest, dearths, defeats, deflate, defleas, delates, derates, draftee, earthed, elaters, falters, fardels, fathers, feasted, feaster, feather, federal, flashed, flasher, fleshed, flesher.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-h-l-r-s-t"
 

+3 letters: softheartedly.

 

+5 letters: halfheartedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Self-hatred


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6C 66 2D 68 61 74 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01101000 01100001 01110100 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#108 &#102 &#45 &#104 &#97 &#116 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0068 0061 0074 0072 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371787215746786847170

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.