Humility is a modest view of your own importance. Show humility, false humility, a lesson in humility.
It is not the same as low self-esteem: the useful kind is an accurate view of yourself rather than a low one, which is why it goes with confidence more often than people expect. The Latin humilis means low, from humus, the ground.
1nounhumilityA modest view of your own importance.
“Despite winning the prize, she spoke with great humility and thanked her team.”
humility is a quality of character.
Latin humilitas comes from humilis, low, from humus, the ground. Human is a relative.
Latin
humilitas — lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility
Old French
umilité
Middle English
humilite
English, today
humility
Built from
From Middle English humilite, from Old French umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”). Equivalent to humble + -ity, with reduced to (compare plumbing). Displaced native ēaþmōdnes. a doublet of omertà.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA