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self-effacement

[self-i-feys-muhnt, self-]

noun

the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.

Origin:
1865–70

Related forms

self-ef·fac·ing, adjective

self-ef·fac·ing·ly, adverb

self-ef·fac·ing·ness, noun

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self-effacement

—n
	the act of making oneself, one's actions, etc, inconspicuous, esp because of humility or timidity

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"Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies."

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