GUILT FEELINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guilt feelings mean? 

• GUILT FEELINGS (noun)
  The noun GUILT FEELINGS has 1 sense:

1. remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense

  Familiarity information: GUILT FEELINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUILT FEELINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

guilt; guilt feelings; guilt trip; guilty conscience

Hypernyms ("guilt feelings" 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 feelings"):

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)