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self-pity definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1621 pity for oneself; especially a self-indulgent dwelling on one's own sorrows or misfortunes • self-pitying adjective • self-pityingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. extreme sorrow for one's own troubles etc. Derivatives: self-pitying adj. self-pityingly adv.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Self-pity is a feeling of unhappiness that you have about yourself and your problems, especially when this is unnecessary or greatly exaggerated. Throughout, he showed no trace of self-pity. [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

benevolence, clemency, commiseration, compassion, condolence, favor, feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, mitigation, pardon, pathos, pity, quarter, relief, reprieve, ruth, sympathy