autoumiliazione
Italian
editEtymology
editFrom auto- + umiliazione (“humiliation”).
Noun
editautoumiliazione f (plural autoumiliazioni)
- self-degradation
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Era più difficile che piegarsi alla repressione intellettuale. Qui c'entrava l'autoumiliazione, l'automutilazione.
- It was more difficult than accepting an intellectual discipline. It was a question of degrading himself, mutilating himself.
- (literally, “It was more difficult than yielding to the intellectual repression. This was a matter of self-degradation, self-mutilation.”)