GUILT TRIP

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense

Synonyms:

guilt; guilt feelings; guilt trip; guilty conscience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("guilt trip" is a kind of...):

compunction; remorse; self-reproach (a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guilt trip"):

survivor guilt (a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died)

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