SELF-EFFACEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-effacement mean? 

• SELF-EFFACEMENT (noun)
  The noun SELF-EFFACEMENT has 1 sense:

1. withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous

  Familiarity information: SELF-EFFACEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-EFFACEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

effacement; self-effacement

Hypernyms ("self-effacement" is a kind of...):

withdrawal (the act of withdrawing)

 Context examples 

I have heard to-night similar, but even more offensive, sentiments from the person who has just sat down, and though it is a conscious effort of self-effacement to come down to that person's mental level, I will endeavor to do so, in order to allay any reasonable doubt which could possibly exist in the minds of anyone.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)