self-effacement

English

Etymology

self- +‎ effacement

Noun

self-effacement (usually uncountable, plural self-effacements)

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.

Derived terms

• self-effacingness
• self-effacing
• self-effacingly

Translations

keeping in the background

• Finnish: vaatimattomuus (fi)
• Hungarian: visszahúzódás (hu), félrehúzódás, háttérbe húzódás, háttérben maradás
• Persian: محو (fa) (mahv)