What are some opposite words for mortification?
Antonyms for mortification
ˌmɔr tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃənmor·ti·fi·ca·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
mortification
Chagrin unites disappointment with some degree of humiliation. A rainy day may bring disappointment; needless failure in some enterprise brings chagrin. Shame involves the consciousness of fault, guilt, or impropriety; chagrin of failure of judgment, or harm to reputation. A consciousness that one has displayed his own ignorance will cause him mortification, however worthy his intent; if there was a design to deceive, the exposure will cover him with shame.
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delight, exultation, glory, rejoicing, triumphSynonyms:
chagrin, confusion, disappointment, discomposure, dismay, humiliation, shame, vexationPreposition:
He felt deep chagrin at (because of, on account of) failure.
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Princeton's WordNet
chagrin, humiliation, mortificationnoun
strong feelings of embarrassment
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humiliation, sphacelus, gangrene, chagrin, abasement, necrosisnecrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelusnoun
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
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humiliation, slough, gangrene, chagrin, necrosis, sphacelushumiliation, mortificationnoun
an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
"he had to undergo one humiliation after another"
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humiliation, sphacelus, gangrene, chagrin, abasement, necrosismortificationnoun
(Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
Synonyms:
humiliation, sphacelus, gangrene, chagrin, necrosis
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
mortificationnoun
Synonyms:
gangrene, chagrin, humiliation, abasement, embarrassment, repression, subjection
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
mortification
Synonyms:
Gangrene, necrosis
How to use mortification in a sentence?
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
Who, in after life, can help smiling at the fancies in which early anticipation revelled ; how absurd, how impossible, do they not now appear! Yet, in such mockery lurks much of bitterness : the laugh rings hollow from many a disappointment, and many a mortification.
Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#5031 | glory | |
#9338 | delight | |
#9500 | triumph | |
#43646 | rejoicing | |
#67228 | mortification | |
#116543 | exultation |
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