self-humiliation

noun

self-hu·​mil·​i·​a·​tion ˌself-hyü-ˌmi-lē-ˈā-shən 

-yü-

plural self-humiliations

: the act or an instance of humiliating oneself or the state of being humiliated by oneself

feelings/acts of self-humiliation

the depths of self-humiliation

Running for elected office is often an exercise in self-humiliation.

—Philip Bump

… What is the butcher's bill for this bargain? So far, they've been willing to pay it in a series of escalating self-humiliations.

—Charles J. Sykes

Examples of self-humiliation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But there are also compelling stories about the more than half century of self-humiliation under Chinese Communist Party rule: the CCP has killed far more Chinese people than foreign interventions ever did. —Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1630, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for self-humiliation

• acclimatisation
• acclimatization
• acidification
• actualization
• annualization
• autocorrelation
• autoregulation
• beatification
• beneficiation
• biodegradation
• biotransformation
• bureaucratization