guilt complex

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• guilt complex — noun A mental preoccupation with one s (real or imagined) guilt • • • Main Entry: ↑guilt …   Useful english dictionary

• guilt complex — guilt complexes N COUNT (disapproval) If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary …   English dictionary

• guilt complex — /ˈgɪlt ˌkɒmplɛks/ (say gilt .kompleks) noun an obsessive sense of responsibility or remorse for some crime, wrong, etc., either real or imagined …  

• complex — 1. An organized constellation of feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and memories that may be in part unconscious and may strongly influence associations and attitudes. 2. In chemistry, the relatively stable combination of two or more compounds into …   Medical dictionary

• guilt — guilt1 [gılt] n [U] [: Old English; Origin: gylt] 1.) a strong feeling of shame and sadness because you know that you have done something wrong ▪ He used to buy them expensive presents, out of guilt. guilt about/at/over ▪ Don t you have any… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• guilt — n. 1 the fact of having committed a specified or implied offence. 2 a culpability. b the feeling of this. Phrases and idioms: guilt complex Psychol. a mental obsession with the idea of having done wrong. Etymology: OE gylt, of unkn. orig …   Useful english dictionary

• Complex post-traumatic stress disorder — (C PTSD) is a psychological injury that results from protracted exposure to prolonged social and/or interpersonal trauma with lack or loss of control, disempowerment, and in the context of either captivity or entrapment, i.e. the lack of a viable …   Wikipedia

• guilt — noun 1 feeling ADJECTIVE ▪ intense, overwhelming, terrible, tremendous ▪ lingering ▪ sexual ▪ Catholic …   Collocations dictionary

• complex — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 set of buildings ADJECTIVE ▪ huge, large, vast ▪ entertainment, holiday (BrE), leisure, shopping, sports …   Collocations dictionary

• Oedipus complex — For the species of salamander, see Oedipina complex. Oedipus explains the riddle of the Sphinx, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, (ca. 1805). In psychoanalytic theory, the term Oedipus complex denotes the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in …   Wikipedia

• Survivor guilt — Survivor guilt, otherwise known as survivor syndrome, is the mental condition that results from the appraisal that a person has done wrong by surviving traumatic events such as combat, natural disasters, or surviving a lay off in a work place.… …   Wikipedia