Humility vs Submissive - What's the difference?
humility | submissive |
The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
Meekly obedient or passive.
* 1756 , Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke , G. Bell & sons, page 314:
* 1913 , Edward Lee Thorndike, Educational Psychology , Teachers college, Columbia university, page 92:
* 2007 , Brian Watermeyer, Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda , HSRC Press, page 269:
As nouns the difference between humility and submissive
is that humility is the characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior while submissive is one who submits.As an adjective submissive is
meekly obedient or passive.humility
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(wikipedia humility)Noun
Usage notes
* Commonly used to mean “modesty, lack of pride” (with respect to one’s achievements), and in formal religious contexts to refer to a transcendent egolessness.Synonyms
* egolessness, humilitude, meekness, modesty, self-effacementAntonyms
* prideExternal links
*submissive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The powerful managers for government were not sufficiently submissive to the pleasure of the possessors of immediate and personal favour, sometimes from a confidence in their own strength natural and acquired; sometimes from a fear of offending their friends, and weakening that lead in the country, which gave them a consideration independent of the court.
- If the human being who answers these tendencies assumes a submissive behavior, in essence a lowering of head and shoulders, wavering glance, absence of all preparations for attack, general weakening of muscle tonus, and hesitancy in movement, the movements of attempt at mastery become modified into attempts at the more obvious swagger, strut and glare of triumph.
- Once oppression has been internalised, little force is needed to keep us submissive .