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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

罪悪感

Pronunciation / Transliteration: zaiakukan

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Guilt/ɡɪlt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2150 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼女は嘘をついたことに対して強い罪悪感を覚えた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The fact of having committed a specified or implied offense or crime.

    "The jury deliberated for hours before establishing his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."
  2. 2

    A feeling of having done wrong or failed in an obligation.

    "She felt a deep sense of guilt about not visiting her parents more often."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'gylt', meaning a crime, sin, or fault, of uncertain further etymology. Historically, it evolved from signifying legal culpability or debt to encompassing the internal psychological emotional state of remorse.

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