🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

自己非難

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jiko hinan

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Self-Condemnation/ˌsɛlf.kənˌdɛmˈneɪ.ʃən/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼の自己非難は失敗後に明らかだった。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The act of condemning oneself for one's actions or beliefs.

    "Her self-condemnation for the mistake was evident in her demeanor."
  2. 2

    A feeling of guilt or shame resulting from one's own actions.

    "He struggled with self-condemnation after failing to meet his own expectations."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'self-condemnation' is derived from the combination of 'self', from Old English 'seolf', meaning 'one's own person', and 'condemnation', from Latin 'condemnatio', meaning 'a declaring to be reprehensible'. The term evolved to describe the act of criticizing or punishing oneself for perceived faults or failures.

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