sense of abjection
- noun
- /sɛns əv æbˈdʒɛkʃən/
:
sentido de abyección
- She felt a deep sense of abjection after the rejection.
Examples
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His sense of abjection was evident when he lost the competition.
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After being publicly criticized, she was overwhelmed by a sense of abjection.
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He could not shake the sense of abjection that followed his mistake.
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The team's defeat left them with a lingering sense of abjection all week.
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After being publicly criticized, she was overwhelmed by a sense of abjection.
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He could not shake the sense of abjection that followed his mistake.
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The team's defeat left them with a lingering sense of abjection all week.
Synonyms
418
2.3
A painful feeling of guilt and embarrassment about something you did wrong
219
3.1
A feeling of awkwardness or shame
148
4.2
A feeling of shame and loss of respect for yourself after being made to look foolish
16
8.2
A feeling of disappointment and embarrassment after you fail
2
8.6
A strong feeling of shame or deep embarrassment
2
9.3
Shame and loss of respect felt by many people
1
9.9
A feeling of being very low, ashamed, and rejected by others
1
7.9
A strong feeling of shame and dislike for yourself
Extreme misery and suffering that makes life very hard
Antonyms
12
3.0
A proud, satisfied feeling you get after finishing something difficult
How Ashamed
- Offensive
148
4.2
418
2.3
219
3.1
19
4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'sense' means a feeling, 'of' marks the relation, and 'abjection' denotes degradation or shame, so 'sense of abjection' straightforwardly means a feeling of abjection. The construction 'sense of X' is a common, cross-linguistic noun‑of‑noun pattern, so a learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase sense of abjection may come from the old image of someone being 'thrown away' or pushed out of their group. Here abjection meant being cast out and sense is the feeling that follows, so imagining someone left alone and small helps explain why the phrase now means 'a feeling of extreme disappointment, humiliation, or shame'.