self-pity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English pity English self-pity From self- + pity.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A feeling of pity for oneself.
I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.
Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.
2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times:
Relateds
self-pitying · cry in one's beer · self-pityingly
Translations (26)
es autocompasión (feeling of pity for oneself) · bg самосъжаление (feeling of pity for oneself) · da selvmedlidenhed (feeling of pity for oneself) · es autoindulgencia (feeling of pity for oneself) · el αυτολύπηση (feeling of pity for oneself) · fr autoapitoiement (feeling of pity for oneself) · is sjálfsmeðaumkun (feeling of pity for oneself) · de Selbstmitleid (feeling of pity for oneself) · nl zelfmedelijden (feeling of pity for oneself) · is sjálfsvorkunn (feeling of pity for oneself) · fr apitoiement sur soi-même (feeling of pity for oneself) · ru жа́лость к себе́ (feeling of pity for oneself) · nl zelfbeklag (feeling of pity for oneself) · pt autocomiseração (feeling of pity for oneself) · sv självömkan (feeling of pity for oneself) · es autolástima (feeling of pity for oneself) · mk самосожалување (feeling of pity for oneself) · fr auto-apitoiement (feeling of pity for oneself) · fi itsesääli (feeling of pity for oneself) · it autocommiserazione (feeling of pity for oneself) · es autoconmiseración (feeling of pity for oneself) · cmn 自憐 /自怜 (feeling of pity for oneself) · hu önsajnálat (feeling of pity for oneself) · ro autocompătimire (feeling of pity for oneself) · cs sebelítost (feeling of pity for oneself) · cs bolestínství (feeling of pity for oneself)