🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

피해의식

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pi-hae-ui-sik

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Persecution complex/ˌpɜːsɪˈkjuːʃən ˌkɒm.pleks/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그는 모든 비판을 공격으로 받아들이는 강한 피해의식이 있다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An unfounded, persistent psychological belief or mental state in which an individual believes they are being singled out, harassed, or mistreated by others.

    "His constant suspicion that coworkers were plotting against him was symptomatic of a severe persecution complex."
  2. 2

    An informal attitude characterized by a tendency to view oneself as an ongoing victim of circumstance, society, or specific groups.

    "The political commentator argued that the organization's grievance culture stemmed from a collective persecution complex."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines persecution, derived from the Latin persecutio meaning 'to pursue or harass', with complex, a psychological term popularized in the early 20th century through psychoanalysis to denote a network of repressed emotions and ideas. While not a formal modern clinical diagnosis, the phrase emerged in popular psychological discourse during the mid-20th century to describe persistent unfounded feelings of being victimized.

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