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self-pity

self-pity noun: a feeling of pity for oneself.

Noun

self-pity (uncountable)

  1. 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

self-pity meaning in Tamil and Kannada

self-pity in Tamil

தன்னிரக்கம்

self-pity in Kannada

ಸ್ವಾನುಕಂಪ, ತನ್ನ ವಿಷಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮರುಕ, ತನ್ಕನಿಕರ

Origin of self-pity

From self- + pity.

Questions about self-pity

What does self-pity mean?
Self-pity means a feeling of pity for oneself.
What is self-pity in Tamil?
Self-pity in Tamil is தன்னிரக்கம். See Self-pity meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-pity?
Self-pity is a noun.

Words near self-pity in the dictionary

  1. self-perfects
  2. self-perpetuating
  3. self-perpetuation
  4. self-perpetuations
  5. self-persuasion
  6. self-pity
  7. self-pitying
  8. self-pityingly
  9. self-plagiarism
  10. self-plagiarisms
  11. self-play

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-pity (page history and authors); self-pity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); self-pity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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