🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

स्वयं-निंदा

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Svayam-ninda

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Self-Blame/sɛlf bleɪm/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"परियोजना में असफलता के बाद, उसने स्वयं-निंदा की भावना महसूस की।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of blaming oneself for a fault or mistake.

    "After the project failed, she fell into a cycle of self-blame that affected her mental health."
  2. 2

    A psychological state where an individual attributes negative outcomes to their own actions or decisions.

    "His self-blame was so intense that he struggled to accept any external factors that contributed to the situation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'self-blame' combines 'self', derived from Old English 'seolf', meaning 'one's own person', and 'blame', from Old French 'blamer', meaning 'to reproach or censure'. The concept has evolved to encapsulate the act of holding oneself responsible for perceived faults or failures.

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