self-effacements
Acts of humility
Self-effacements are acts of making oneself inconspicuous or minimizing one's own importance.
The word captures deliberate withdrawals from attention—declining credit, downplaying accomplishments, staying in the background: His constant self-effacements made it hard to recognize his contributions to the project.
Absence of vanity
- understatementIntentional diminishment for effect
- meeknessGentle, unassertive disposition
- diffidenceModest self-distrust
- reticenceHabitual verbal restraint
unassumingness · humbleness · demureness · unpretentiousness · lowliness · submissiveness · reserve · quietness
Aesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
- non-attachmentFreedom from possessive clinging
surrender · yielding · emptying · dissolution · transcendence · egolessness
Act of taking away
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- invisibilityState of being unseen
- anonymityUnknown identity state
- backgroundOne's formative experiences
sidelines · obscurity · retreating · yielding · disappearing · wallflower · unnoticed · overlooked
modesty
Absence of vanity
- understatementIntentional diminishment for effect
- meeknessGentle, unassertive disposition
- diffidenceModest self-distrust
reticence · unassumingness · humbleness · demureness · unpretentiousness · lowliness · submissiveness · reserve · quietness · unobtrusiveness
wabi-sabi
Aesthetic valuing transience, incompleteness
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- detachmentSeparation or emotional uninvolvement
non-attachment · surrender · yielding · emptying · dissolution · transcendence · egolessness
withdrawal
Act of taking away
- fadingGradual loss of intensity
- invisibilityState of being unseen
- anonymityUnknown identity state
background · sidelines · obscurity · retreating · yielding · disappearing · wallflower · unnoticed · overlooked · shadow
self-effacementsboastfulness
Excessive pride in oneself
self-promotion · bragging · self-aggrandizement · showboating · showing off
self-effacementsegotism
Inflated sense of self-importance
arrogance · conceit · vanity · narcissism · self-importance
self-effacementsself-promotions
Publicizing one's own accomplishments
boastfulness · bragging · showboating · grandstanding · attention-seeking
self, selves, selfish, selfishness, selfless, selflessness, selfhood, efface, effaced