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English
Etymology
From self- + pity.
Pronunciation
Noun
self-pity (uncountable)
- A feeling of pity for oneself.
I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.
Translations
feeling of pity for oneself
- Bulgarian: самосъжаление n (samosǎžalenie), самосъжаление n (samosǎžalenie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自憐/自怜 (zh) (zìlián)
- Czech: sebelítost m, bolestínství m
- Danish: selvmedlidenhed c
- Dutch: zelfbeklag (nl) n, zelfmedelijden (nl) n
- Finnish: itsesääli
- French: apitoiement sur soi-même m, autoapitoiement (fr) m, auto-apitoiement (fr)
- German: Selbstmitleid (de) n
- Greek: μεμψιμοιρία (el) f (mempsimoiría), αυτολύπηση f (aftolýpisi)
- Hungarian: önsajnálat (hu)
- Icelandic: sjálfsvorkunn f, sjálfsmeðaumkun f
- Italian: autocommiserazione f
- Macedonian: самосожалување n (samosožaluvanje)
- Portuguese: autocomiseração (pt) m
- Romanian: autocompătimire f
- Russian: жа́лость (žálostʹ) к (k) (самому (samomu) / самой (samoj)) себе́ (sebé) (žálostʹ k (samomú / samój) sebé) f ("самому́" - of a man, "само́й" - of a woman)
- Spanish: autoconmiseración f, autocompasión f, autolástima f, autoindulgencia f
- Swedish: självömkan (sv) c
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