Antonyms for mortification
ˌmɔr tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃənmor·ti·fi·ca·tion

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1. 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.

   Antonyms:
   delight, exultation, glory, rejoicing, triumph

   Synonyms:
   chagrin, confusion, disappointment, discomposure, dismay, humiliation, shame, vexation

   Preposition:
   He felt deep chagrin at (because of, on account of) failure.

Matched Categories

1. • Christianity
   • Case
   • Death
   • Embarrassment
   • Self-denial

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1. chagrin, humiliation, mortificationnoun

   strong feelings of embarrassment

   Synonyms:
   humiliation, sphacelus, gangrene, chagrin, abasement, necrosis

2. necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelusnoun

   the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)

   Synonyms:
   humiliation, slough, gangrene, chagrin, necrosis, sphacelus

3. humiliation, mortificationnoun

   an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect

   "he had to undergo one humiliation after another"

   Synonyms:
   humiliation, sphacelus, gangrene, chagrin, abasement, necrosis

4. mortificationnoun

   (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

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1. mortificationnoun

   Synonyms:
   gangrene, chagrin, humiliation, abasement, embarrassment, repression, subjection

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mortification

   Synonyms:
   Gangrene, necrosis
   

How to use mortification in a sentence?

1. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

   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.

2. Raoul Vaneigem:

   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.

3. John Owen:

   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.

4. Alice Thomas Ellis:

   Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

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