autoumiliazione

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.”)