self-pity

Etymology

From self- +‎ pity.

Pronunciation

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Noun

self-pity (uncountable)

1. A feeling of pity for oneself.

   I was sitting in my room, wallowing in self pity, when my favorite TV program came on.

   • 2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times‎:

     Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.

See also

• cry in one's beer