Antonyms for abjection
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ab-jek-shuh n |
Phonetic Transcription : æbˈdʒɛk ʃən |
- abundance
- adequacy
- advantage
- affluence
- benefit
- benevolence
- blessing
- bulge
- cheer
- cheerfulness
- comfort
- contentedness
- contentment
- convexity
- ease
- easiness
- encouragement
- enough
- excess
- fill
- generosity
- gladness
- goodness
- happiness
- health
- honor
- hope
- hopefulness
- joy
- joyfulness
- joyousness
- liveliness
- lot
- luxury
- morality
- nobility
- peace
- pleasure
- plenty
- profit
- protuberance
- recovery
- relief
- richness
- satisfaction
- sufficiency
- surge
- surplus
- virtue
- wealth
- worthiness
Definition of abjection
Origin :- early 15c., from Old French abjection (14c.), from Latin abjectionem (nominative abjectio) "dejection, despondency," literally "a throwing away," noun of action from past participle stem of abicere (see abject).
- As in poverty : noun want; extreme need, often financial
- As in meanness : noun the quality of being mean
- As in wretchedness : noun misery
- As in impecuniosity : noun poverty
- As in impecuniousness : noun poverty
- As in impoverishment : noun poverty
- As in neediness : noun poverty
- As in pennilessness : noun poverty
- As in penuriousness : noun poverty
- As in depression : noun low spirits; despair
- By her silence, her abjection, her suppression, he shall prevail: not otherwise.
- Extract from : « Browning's Heroines » by Ethel Colburn Mayne
- This sublimeness combines with their abjection to overwhelm them and raise them up.
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of Victor Hugo » by Victor Hugo
- There is in the young girl all the abjection of the cad and of the school-boy.
- Extract from : « Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry » by Charles Baudelaire
- He wanted in that abjection to triumph over the entire East.
- Extract from : « Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern » by Edgar Saltus
- For in my abjection, I own I clutch at straws, miserably anxious for support.
- Extract from : « The Gateless Barrier » by Lucas Malet
- Finally his failure and his shame had crushed him into abjection.
- Extract from : « What Will People Say? » by Rupert Hughes
- It is a disgrace to thee to go vagabonding about in this abjection.
- Extract from : « Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp » by John Payne
- Tante's tears, her words and attitude of abjection, dispersed the nightmare horror.
- Extract from : « Tante » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
- They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury.
- Extract from : « The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind » by Herbert George Wells
- Abjection is not the result of the faithful discharge of duty, however trying the circumstances may be.
- Extract from : « England, Canada and the Great War » by Louis-Georges Desjardins
Synonyms for abjection
- abasement
- abjection
- abjectness
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- aridity
- avarice
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- baseness
- beastliness
- beggary
- blahs
- bleakness
- blue funk
- bummer
- cheerlessness
- churlishness
- closeness
- contemptibleness
- corruptness
- covetousness
- dearth
- debasement
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- degeneracy
- degradation
- dejection
- depletion
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- desperation
- despondency
- destitution
- difficulty
- discomfort
- disconsolation
- discontent
- discouragement
- dispiritedness
- disrepute
- distress
- dole
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dreariness
- dullness
- dumps
- emptiness
- ennui
- exiguity
- famine
- frugality
- gloom
- gloominess
- greed
- grief
- hardship
- heaviness of heart
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- ill-temper
- impecuniosity
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- infamy
- iniquity
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- knavishness
- lack
- lowness
- lugubriosity
- malice
- malignity
- meagerness
- melancholia
- melancholy
- miserliness
- misery
- mortification
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pain
- parsimony
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pettiness
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- qualm
- rapacity
- reduction
- sadness
- scarcity
- shamelessness
- shortage
- smallmindedness
- sordidness
- sorrow
- starvation
- stinginess
- straits
- suffering
- the blues
- torment
- trouble
- underdevelopment
- unhappiness
- unkindness
- unscrupulousness
- unworthiness
- vacancy
- vapors
- want
- wickedness
- woe
- woefulness
- worry
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