survivor guilt 1

noundomain: emotion
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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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

  • 1.survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust

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