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self-effacement

noun

Etymology

From self- + effacement.

  1. borrowed from effacement
  2. prefixed as self-effacement — “self + effacement”

Definitions

  1. The act of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility.

    • John likes to remain unnoticed and does so naturally through the self-effacement found in his personality.

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