survivor guilt

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• March 3. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  survivor guilt — noun — english

  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; "survivor guilt was first noted in those who survived the Holocaust"