ABJECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abjection mean? 

• ABJECTION (noun)
  The noun ABJECTION has 1 sense:

1. a low or downcast state

  Familiarity information: ABJECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A low or downcast state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

abasement; abjection; degradation

Context example:

each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement

Hypernyms ("abjection" is a kind of...):

humiliation (state of disgrace or loss of self-respect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "abjection"):

decadence; decadency; degeneracy; degeneration (the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities)

depth ((usually plural) a low moral state)

 Context examples 

But his love of me is wonderful; I go further: I, who sicken and freeze at the mere thought of him, when I recall the abjection and passion of this attachment, and when I know how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide, I find it in my heart to pity him.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)