humility

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humility

Etymology

From Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”). Equivalent to humble +‎ -ity, with /mb/ reduced to /m/ (compare plumbing). Displaced native Old English ēaþmōdnes. Doublet of omertà.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

humility (usually uncountable, plural humilities)

The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 193:
  She had established a character for humility, discretion, noiselessness and religion which Mrs. Piper greatly regretted losing.

Usage notes

Commonly used to mean “modesty, lack of pride” (with respect to one’s achievements), and in formal religious contexts to refer to a transcendent egolessness.

Synonyms

egolessness, humilitude, meekness, modesty, self-effacement

Antonyms

pride

Related terms

Translations

characteristic of being humble

Albanian: vutësi f
Arabic: تَوَاضُع (ar) m (tawāḍuʕ)
Azerbaijani: təvazö
Belarusian: пако́рлівасць f (pakórlivascʹ), пако́рнасць f (pakórnascʹ), скро́мнасць f (skrómnascʹ)
Bulgarian: смире́ност f (smirénost), поко́рност (bg) f (pokórnost), смире́ние (bg) n (smirénie), скро́мност (bg) f (skrómnost)
Catalan: humilitat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 謙卑 / 谦卑 (zh) (qiānbēi), 謙遜 / 谦逊 (zh) (qiānxùn)
Czech: pokora (cs) f, skromnost (cs) f
Danish: ydmyghed c
Dutch: nederigheid (nl) f, deemoed (nl) m
Esperanto: humileco
Finnish: nöyryys (fi)
French: humilité (fr) f
Galician: humildade (gl) f
Georgian: თავმდაბლობა (tavmdabloba), მოკრძალებულობა (moḳrʒalebuloba)
German: Bescheidenheit (de) f, Demut (de) f
Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (hauniþa), 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (hauneins)
Greek: ταπεινότητα (el) f (tapeinótita)
Ancient Greek: ταπεινότης f (tapeinótēs), ταπεινοφροσύνη f (tapeinophrosúnē)
Hebrew: צְנִיעוּת (he) f (tsniút), ענווה (he) f (anavá)
Hindi: विनम्रता (hi) f (vinamratā)
Hungarian: alázat (hu)
Icelandic: hógværð (is) f, auðmýkt (is) f
Indonesian: kerendahhatian, kerendahan hati
Irish: uirísle f, umhlaíocht f
Italian: umiltà (it) f
Japanese: 謙遜 (ja) (けんそん, kenson)
Korean: 겸손 (ko) (gyeomson)
Macedonian: скромност f (skromnost)
Malayalam: വിനയം (ml) (vinayaṁ)
Maori: māhaki, māhakitanga
Navajo: tʼahʼágo ájítʼé
Nepali: विनम्रता (vinamratā), नम्रता (namratā)
Ngazidja Comorian: unyenyekevu class 11
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ydmykhet (no) m or f
Occitan: umilitat (oc) f
Old English: ēaþmōdnes f
Old Occitan: umilitat
Ottoman Turkish: تواضع
Persian: تواضع (fa) (tavâzo')
Polish: pokora (pl) f
Portuguese: humildade (pt) f
Romanian: umilință (ro) f, umilitate f
Russian: скро́мность (ru) f (skrómnostʹ), смире́ние (ru) f (smirénije), поко́рность (ru) f (pokórnostʹ), смире́нность (ru) f (smirénnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: poniznost (sh) f, skromnost (sh) f, smernost (sh) f, skrušenost (sh) f
Slovak: pokora f, skromnosť f
Slovene: ponižnost f
Spanish: humildad (es)
Swedish: ödmjukhet (sv) c
Telugu: ఒద్దిక (te) (oddika)
Thai: ความถ่อมตัว, ความนอบน้อม
Turkish: tevazu (tr)
Ukrainian: покі́рність f (pokírnistʹ), покі́рливість f (pokírlyvistʹ), смире́нність f (smyrénnistʹ), скро́мність f (skrómnistʹ)
Volapük: mük (vo)
Yiddish: שפֿלות f (shifles)