autoumiliazione

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Italian

Etymology

From auto- +‎ umiliazione (humiliation).

Noun

autoumiliazione f (plural autoumiliazioni)

  1. self-degradation
    • 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
      Era più difficile che piegarsi alla repressione intellettuale. Qui c'entrava l'autoumiliazione, l'automutilazione.
      It was more difficult than accepting an intellectual discipline. It was a question of degrading himself, mutilating himself.
      (literally, “It was more difficult than yielding to the intellectual repression. This was a matter of self-degradation, self-mutilation.”)