what does survivor guilt mean?

SURVIVOR GUILT as NOUN

Meaning
- 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 unworth
Hypernyms(s) survivor guilt is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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