effacement
Wiping something away
Effacement is the act of erasing, rubbing out, or making something inconspicuous.
You might efface an inscription from stone or efface yourself by withdrawing into the background.
Self-effacement describes modest, unassuming behavior—deliberately minimizing one's presence or achievements: Her self-effacement made her contributions easy to overlook.
In obstetrics, cervical effacement is the thinning of the cervix before childbirth.
Removal of content
- expungementOfficial record removal
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- removalAct of taking away
wiping · clearing · scrubbing · stripping · excision · expunction · purging · rubbing out
Freedom from arrogance
- self-abnegationRenouncing one's own interests
- reticenceHabitual verbal restraint
- bashfulnessTimid self-consciousness
- meeknessGentle, unassertive disposition
diffidence · unpretentiousness · unassuming · reserve · demureness · self-deprecation · self-denial · invisibility
Widening of an opening
- thinningReducing density or number
- ripeningBecoming ready to eat
- contractionsShortened word forms
- cervixUterine opening to vagina
delivery · childbirth · parturition · midwife · obstetrics · doula · labor · mucus plug
deletion
Removal of content
- expungementOfficial record removal
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
removal · wiping · clearing · scrubbing · stripping · excision · expunction · purging · rubbing out · wearing away
humility
Freedom from arrogance
- self-abnegationRenouncing one's own interests
- reticenceHabitual verbal restraint
- bashfulnessTimid self-consciousness
meekness · diffidence · unpretentiousness · unassuming · reserve · demureness · self-deprecation · self-denial · invisibility · withdrawal
dilation
Widening of an opening
- thinningReducing density or number
- ripeningBecoming ready to eat
- contractionsShortened word forms
cervix · delivery · childbirth · parturition · midwife · obstetrics · doula · labor · mucus plug · lightening
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, birth
- women's healthgynecologist, gynecology, menstruation, OB-GYN, period
- labor signscontractions, water breaking, mucus plug, dilation, active labor
- obscurityinvisibility, anonymity, concealment, hiddenness, obscurity
- cervicalcervical, cervix, neck, C3, C4
effacementprominence
Notable status or visibility
emphasis · accentuation · highlighting · display · exhibition
effacementself-promotion
Publicizing one's own merits
self-aggrandizement · self-assertion · assertiveness · boastfulness · egotism
effacementpreservation
Maintaining something's condition
creation · inscription · conservation · restoration · enshrinement
face, surface, facade, deface, efface, defaced, defacement, defacing, effaced