Usually means: Diminishing oneself to elevate others.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word self effacement:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-effacement: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-effacement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-effacement, self-effacement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. self-effacement: Vocabulary.com
  5. self-effacement: Wordnik
  6. self-effacement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. self-effacement: Wiktionary
  8. self-effacement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. self-effacement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. self-effacement: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. self-effacement, self effacement: Dictionary.com
  12. self-effacement: Rhymezone
  13. self-effacement: FreeDictionary.org
  14. self-effacement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. self-effacement: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-effacement: Legal dictionary



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