From Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”), equivalent to humble + -ity.; see humble. Doublet of omerta. Displaced native Old English ēaþmōdnes.
humility (countable and uncountable, plural humilities)
- The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 193:She had established a character for humility, discretion, noiselessness and religion which Mrs. Piper greatly regretted losing.
Terms etymologically related to humility
characteristic of being humble
- Arabic: تَوَاضُع (ar) m (tawāḍuʕ)
- Azerbaijani: təvazö
- Belarusian: пако́рлівасць f (pakórlivascʹ), пако́рнасць f (pakórnascʹ), скро́мнасць f (skrómnascʹ)
- Bulgarian: смире́ност f (smirénost), поко́рност (bg) f (pokórnost), смире́ние (bg) n (smirénie), скро́мност (bg) f (skrómnost)
- Catalan: humilitat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 謙卑／谦卑 (zh) (qiānbēi), 謙遜／谦逊 (zh) (qiānxùn)
- Czech: pokora (cs) f, skromnost (cs) f
- Danish: ydmyghed c
- Dutch: nederigheid (nl) f, deemoed (nl) m
- Esperanto: humileco
- Finnish: nöyryys (fi)
- French: humilité (fr) f
- Galician: humildade (gl) f
- Georgian: თავმდაბლობა (tavmdabloba), მოკრძალებულობა (moḳrʒalebuloba)
- German: Bescheidenheit (de) f, Demut (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (hauniþa), 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (hauneins)
- Greek: ταπεινότητα (el) f (tapeinótita)
- Ancient Greek: ταπεινότης f (tapeinótēs), ταπεινοφροσύνη f (tapeinophrosúnē)
- Hebrew: צְנִיעוּת (he) f (tsniút), ענווה (he) f (anavá)
- Hindi: विनम्रता f (vinamratā)
- Hungarian: alázat (hu)
- Icelandic: hógværð (is) f, auðmýkt (is) f
- Irish: uirísle f, umhlaíocht f
- Italian: umiltà (it) f
- Japanese: 謙遜 (ja) (けんそん, kenson)
- Korean: 겸손 (ko) (gyeomson)
- Macedonian: скромност f (skromnost)
- Malayalam: വിനയം (ml) (vinayaṁ)
- Maori: māhaki, māhakitanga
- Navajo: tʼahʼágo ájítʼé
- Nepali: विनम्रता (vinamratā), नम्रता (namratā)
- Ngazidja Comorian: unyenyekevu class 11
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ydmykhet (no) m or f
- Occitan: umilitat (oc) f
- Old English: ēaþmōdnes f
- Old Occitan: umilitat
- Ottoman Turkish: تواضع
- Persian: تواضع (fa) (tavâzo')
- Polish: pokora (pl) f
- Portuguese: humildade (pt) f
- Romanian: umilință (ro) f, umilitate f
- Russian: скро́мность (ru) f (skrómnostʹ), смире́ние (ru) f (smirénije), поко́рность (ru) f (pokórnostʹ), смире́нность (ru) f (smirénnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: poniznost (sh) f, skromnost (sh) f, smernost (sh) f, skrušenost (sh) f
- Slovak: pokora f, skromnosť f
- Slovene: ponižnost f
- Spanish: humildad (es)
- Swedish: ödmjukhet (sv) c
- Telugu: ఒద్దిక (te) (oddika)
- Thai: ความถ่อมตัว, ความนอบน้อม
- Turkish: tevazu (tr)
- Ukrainian: покі́рність f (pokírnistʹ), покі́рливість f (pokírlyvistʹ), смире́нність f (smyrénnistʹ), скро́мність f (skrómnistʹ)
- Volapük: mük (vo)
- Yiddish: שפֿלות f (shifles)
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