self-defilement
- noun
- /ˈsɛlf dɪˈfaɪlmənt/
- Years of self-defilement left him feeling empty and ashamed.
Examples
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Her constant criticism led to a deep sense of self-defilement.
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Therapists help patients identify the roots of their self-defilement.
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Some people turn to self-defilement as a response to unresolved guilt.
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He struggles with feelings of self-defilement after each failure.
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Years of self-defilement left him feeling empty and ashamed.
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Some people turn to self-defilement as a response to unresolved guilt.
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He struggles with feelings of self-defilement after each failure.
Synonyms
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6.4
A strong painful feeling that you are a bad person or have no value
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5.1
A habit of judging yourself harshly for your actions or abilities
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7.5
Making yourself suffer because you feel guilty
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7.4
Causing yourself pain by thinking a lot about bad things
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7.9
A strong feeling of shame and dislike for yourself
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7.9
To blame yourself for mistakes or failures
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7.1
A feeling of blaming yourself for something you did wrong
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9.3
Act of making yourself feel ashamed to show you are sorry
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9.9
A practice of hurting yourself on purpose to show discipline or say sorry, often for religious reasons
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7.6
Blaming yourself for things you did wrong
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7.2
A feeling that you are not worth much
Antonyms
How Degrading
Surface Forms
Morphology
self-defilement = defilement (transparent) = self + defile + ment
The structure is a straightforward prefixation of 'self-' to the noun 'defilement', yielding the meaning 'defiling oneself'.
Etymology
Self-defilement breaks into self and defile, where defile means 'to make dirty'. So self-defilement is like 'making yourself dirty' — actions or thoughts that harm your own sense of worth and leave you feeling ashamed.