guilt
Noun
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The state of having committed an offense (synset 114014160)
subtypes:
- blameworthiness, culpability, culpableness - a state of guilt
- bloodguilt - the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder
- complicity - guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
- criminalism, criminality, criminalness - the state of being a criminal
- guilt by association - the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guilty
- impeachability, indictability - the state of being liable to impeachment
same as: guiltiness -
Remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense (synset 107551633)
is a type of: compunction, remorse, self-reproach - a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)subtypes: 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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