meaning of "humbling"
1. What does "humbling" mean here? can anyone give a synonym for it?

I spent hours in cytogenetics and appreciated the scientists’ painstaking approach by doing some of the same exercises – basic chromosome and pairing recognition which their ‘beginners’ do. There was something humbling about the work because it had to be ‘right’ and the eye had to be educated to its rightness. Yet there seemed so much variation even with normal chromosomes, it seemed to me the issue of an aesthetic had to be applied to the equivalent of the ‘odd sock drawer.

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meaning of "humbling"
1. What does "humbling" mean here? can anyone give a synonym for it?

I spent hours in cytogenetics and appreciated the scientists’ painstaking approach by doing some of the same exercises – basic chromosome and pairing recognition which their ‘beginners’ do. There was something humbling about the work because it had to be ‘right’ and the eye had to be educated to its rightness. Yet there seemed so much variation even with normal chromosomes, it seemed to me the issue of an aesthetic had to be applied to the equivalent of the ‘odd sock drawer.

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Humbling is an adjective which means to make you feel small or inferior.

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Humbling is how you feel when have done something , but then it is proven to be as as good as you thought, and you dont feel as confident or proud as before eg Its really humbling that I can lose to him: I thought he was a useless player.

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