🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

정서적 짐

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jeong-seo-jeok jim

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Emotional baggage/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl ˈbæɡ.ɪdʒ/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 과거의 정서적 짐을 극복해야 했다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Unresolved negative feelings, past traumas, or psychological issues from previous experiences that burden a person's current life and relationships.

    "He needed time to deal with his emotional baggage before starting a new relationship."
  2. 2

    Prejudices, fixed mental attitudes, or accumulated stress that impede objective thinking or emotional growth.

    "She approached the negotiation without the emotional baggage of past corporate failures."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines the 17th-century adjective 'emotional', derived from the Latin 'emovere' (to stir up or remove), with 'baggage', originating from Old French 'bagage' via medieval military logistics. In the mid-to-late 20th century, the expression became a prominent psychological idiom, metaphorically equating unresolved past traumas and negative feelings with physical luggage that weighs a person down.

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