different between humiliation vs dejection

English

Etymology

From Middle French humiliation, from Late Latin humiliatio, from humiliare (“to humiliate”); see humiliate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hju??m?li?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

humiliation (countable and uncountable, plural humiliations)

1. The act of humiliating or humbling someone; abasement of pride; mortification.
2. The state of being humiliated, humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

   •     One morning Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were having breakfast when Lincoln did something that aroused the fiery temper of his wife. What, no one remembers now. But Mrs. Lincoln, in a rage, dashed a cup of hot coffee into her husband's face. And she did it in front of the other boarders.
         Saying nothing, Lincoln sat there in humiliation and silence while Mrs. Early came with a wet towel and wiped off his face and clothes.

Synonyms

• abasement
• dishonor
• embarrassment
• mortification
• shame

Antonyms

• honor
• exaltation

Related terms

• humble
• humiliate
• humiliating
• humility

Translations

Further reading

• humiliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• humiliation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Late Latin humili?ti?.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /y.mi.lja.sj??/

Noun

humiliation f (plural humiliations)

1. A humiliation, active or passive

Synonyms

• abaissement

Related terms

• humiliant

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “humiliation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old French dejection, from Latin dejectio (“a casting down”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??d??k??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??d??k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

dejection (countable and uncountable, plural dejections)

1. A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
2. The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
   • Bishop Pearson

     Adoration implies submission and dejection.

3. A low condition; weakness; inability.
   • Arbuthnot

     a dejection of appetite

4. (medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.

Synonyms

• (melancholy, depression, low spirits): despondency, downheartedness, crestfallenness
• (defecation or feces): excrement, bowel movement

Translations