The state of being humble and unimportant.

synonyms: humbleness, obscureness, unimportance.

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

A position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation.

synonyms: low status, lowness.