A disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride:
— Not everyone regards humility as a virtue.

synonym: humbleness.

Roget 987: piety, religion, theism, faith; religiousness, holiness etc. adj.; saintship^†; religionism^†; sanctimony etc. (assumed piety) 988; reverence etc. (respect) 928; humility, veneration, devotion; prostration etc. (worship) 990; grace, unction, edification; sanctity, sanctitude^†; consecration.    spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness.    theopathy^†, beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life; Body and Blood of Christ.    believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist^†; the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect; Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame [Fr.], Our Lady.    the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, the children of the light.    ... show more

Roget 886: servility; slavery etc. (subjection) 749; obsequiousness etc. adj.; subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation^†; genuflection etc. (worship) 990; fawning etc. v.; tuft-hunting, timeserving^†, flunkeyism^†; sycophancy etc. (flattery) 933; humility etc. 879.    sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter^†; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens [Lat.], hanger on, cavaliere servente [It], led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank^†; flatterer etc. 935; doer of dirty work; ame damnee [Fr.], tool; reptile; slave etc. (servant) 746; courtier; beat [Slang], dead beat [Slang], doughface [U.S.], heeler [U.S.], homme de cour [Fr.], sponger, sucker [Slang], tagtail^†, truckler.    ... show more

Roget 879: humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood^†; abasement, self-abasement; submission etc. 725; resignation.    condescension; affability etc. (courtesy) 894.    modesty etc. 881; verecundity^†, blush, suffusion, confusion; sense of shame, sense of disgrace; humiliation, mortification; let down, set down.    ... show more

Roget 881: modesty; humility etc. 879; diffidence, timidity; retiring disposition; unobtrusiveness; bashfulness etc. adj.; mauvaise honte [Fr.]; blush, blushing; verecundity^†; self-knowledge.    reserve, constraint; demureness etc. adj.; blushing honors" [Henry VIII]. ... show more

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A humble feeling:
— He was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope.

synonym: humbleness.