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- Dictionaryindignity/ɪnˈdɪɡnɪti/
noun
- 1. treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or to lose one's dignity: "the indignity of needing financial help"
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The meaning of INDIGNITY is an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult. How to use indignity in a sentence.
INDIGNITY definition: 1. something that causes a loss of respect for someone or for yourself: 2. something that causes a…. Learn more.
Indignity definition: an injury to a person's dignity; slighting or contemptuous treatment; humiliating affront, insult, or injury.. See examples of INDIGNITY used in a sentence.
INDIGNITY meaning: 1. something that causes a loss of respect for someone or for yourself: 2. something that causes a…. Learn more.
in·dig·ni·ty. (ĭn-dĭg′nĭ-tē) n. pl. in·dig·ni·ties. 1. Humiliating, degrading, or abusive treatment. 2. A source of offense, as to a person's pride or sense of dignity; an affront. 3. Obsolete Lack of dignity or honor.
An indignity is usually something that happens to us rather than something we do ourselves. As you might guess from that negative prefix in-, an indignity is a word that takes dignity (or self-esteem) away. If you find a fly in your soup, that's an indignity — not to mention protein.
indignity. noun. /ɪnˈdɪɡnəti/. /ɪnˈdɪɡnəti/. [uncountable, countable] (plural indignities) indignity (of something/of doing something) a situation that makes you feel embarrassed or ashamed because you are not treated with respect; an act that causes these feelings synonym humiliation.
If you talk about the indignity of doing something, you mean that it makes you feel embarrassed or unimportant.
INDIGNITY meaning: a situation that makes you lose respect or look silly, or the feeling of shame and embarrassment it…. Learn more.
ĭn-dĭgnĭ-tē. The quality of being humiliating, insulting, etc. Something that humiliates, insults, or injures the dignity or self-respect; affront. Lack of dignity or honor. Degradation, debasement or humiliation.
