Humility
Meaning
The quality of having a modest or low view of one's importance.
Pronunciation
UK hjuːˈmɪləti
US hjuːˈmɪləti
Example Sentences
- Struggling with a language also teaches patience and humility.
- The good news is that none of this demands genius, only a clean spoon and the humility to use it often.
Learn Humility in Context
Why Language Barriers Are Not Always BadImagine ordering dinner with only hand gestures and a hopeful smile. Millions of travelers face this every single day, and it usually works out just fine. When you [cannot] speak the local language, y...Read story 
How Chefs Taste, and Why Amateurs Rarely DoA professional cook will spit a mouthful of soup straight back into the spoon without embarrassment, then reach for the salt. That small, unlovely ritual is the whole difference between tasting and me...Read story
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