- guilt feelings
- nounremorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense• Syn: ↑guilt, ↑guilty conscience, ↑guilt trip• Hypernyms: ↑compunction, ↑remorse, ↑self-reproach• Hyponyms: ↑survivor guilt
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guilt feelings
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Guilt — Guilty redirects here. For other uses, see Guilty (disambiguation). Guilt is the state of being responsible for the commission of an offense.[1] It is also a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes… … Wikipedia
guilt-trip — /gilt trip /, v.t., guilt tripped, guilt tripping. Informal. to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of. [1975 80] * * * … Universalium
guilt trip — noun remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense • Syn: ↑guilt, ↑guilty conscience, ↑guilt feelings • Derivationally related forms: ↑guilty (for: ↑guilt) • … Useful english dictionary
guilt-trip — /gilt trip /, v.t., guilt tripped, guilt tripping. Informal. to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of. [1975 80] … Useful english dictionary
guilt-trip — sts guilt′ trip v. t. tripped, trip•ping. inf to attempt to instill a guilt trip in; play upon the guilt feelings of • Etymology: 1975–80 … From formal English to slang
guilt-ridden — adj. mentally anguished due to feelings of guilt[3]. Syn: guilt sick. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
feelings of guilt — index remorse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
guilt/shame — Guilt is the uncomfortable feeling of having done wrong, and therefore deserving the anger of others. Shame is the sense of deserving the contempt or disdain of others. Although anthropologists and historians sometimes divide societies as more… … Philosophy dictionary
guilt — gilt n feelings of culpability esp. for imagined offenses or from a sense of inadequacy: morbid self reproach often manifest in marked preoccupation with the moral correctness of one s behavior <aggressive responses originating in inner guilt… … Medical dictionary
feelings of guilt — feelings caused by a sense or knowledge that one has done something wrong … English contemporary dictionary
