Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult
If you talk about the indignity of doing something, you mean that it makes you feel embarrassed or unimportant. Later, he suffered the indignity of having to flee angry protesters = humiliation. indignities a situation that makes you feel very ashamed and not respected