"self-pity" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-self-pity.wav
Etymology: From self- + pity. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|self|pity}} self- + pity Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} self-pity (uncountable)
  1. A feeling of pity for oneself. Wikipedia link: self-pity Tags: uncountable Related terms: self-pitying, self-pityingly, cry in one's beer Translations (feeling of pity for oneself): самосъжаление (samosǎžalenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 自憐 (Chinese Mandarin), 自怜 (zìlián) (Chinese Mandarin), sebelítost [masculine] (Czech), bolestínství [masculine] (Czech), selvmedlidenhed [common-gender] (Danish), zelfbeklag [neuter] (Dutch), zelfmedelijden [neuter] (Dutch), itsesääli (Finnish), apitoiement sur soi-même [masculine] (French), autoapitoiement [masculine] (French), auto-apitoiement (French), Selbstmitleid [neuter] (German), μεμψιμοιρία (mempsimoiría) [feminine] (Greek), αυτολύπηση (aftolýpisi) [feminine] (Greek), önsajnálat (Hungarian), sjálfsvorkunn [feminine] (Icelandic), sjálfsmeðaumkun [feminine] (Icelandic), autocommiserazione [feminine] (Italian), самосожалување (samosožaluvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), autocomiseração [masculine] (Portuguese), autocompătimire [feminine] (Romanian), жа́лость к себе́ (sebé) (alt: žálostʹ k (samomú / samój) sebé) [feminine] (Russian), autoconmiseración [feminine] (Spanish), autocompasión [feminine] (Spanish), autolástima [feminine] (Spanish), autoindulgencia [feminine] (Spanish), självömkan [common-gender] (Swedish)

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.