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self-depreciation

noun

Etymology

From self- + depreciation. Commonly used until the 1980s, and is now a minor (although still acceptable) variation of self-deprecation.

  1. borrowed from dépréciation
  2. formed as self-depreciation — “self- + depreciation”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of self-deprecation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-depreciation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA