0 the quality of not making yourself noticeable, or not trying to get the attention of other people:
He has never been one for modesty or self-effacement.
Quinton replied with typical self-effacement and his trademark sense of humor.
His self-effacement partly explains why his career has often seemed to exist in the shadows.
Shyness, diffidence or self-effacement, she notes, have long been prized national traits.
A nation that prides itself on polite self-effacement has suddenly produced the new star of women's athletics.
Besides, self-effacement is a familiar and standard strategy among mystics who recognize that they are likely to arouse the animus of the establishment.
We get no sense of the caution or self-effacement that conventional accounts of scientific texts lead us to expect.
In this poetic effort, he maintains correctly, "she empowers herself as well, all the while retaining the stance of self-effacement " (114-29).
As such, it is a recognition of our particularity and not a form of radical self-effacement.
