noun

• 1The blaming of oneself for something.

  ‘feelings of guilt and self-condemnation’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Far from being an opportunity for self-condemnation or increased guilt, repentance is meant to be an experience of freedom and liberation.’
  • ‘Guilt and self-condemnation for performing such acts seems quite unhealthy.’
  • ‘Those who connive to retaliate after a misunderstanding comes up should know they are carving a destiny of unhappiness for themselves by digging a pit of remorse, self-condemnation and depression.’
  • ‘In more self-defeating forms, it intensifies to self-negation, self-condemnation, self-rejection, and self-hatred.’
  • ‘As they discuss and share coping of trauma-related shame, guilt, rage, fear, doubt, and self-condemnation, they prepare themselves to focus on the present rather than the past.’
  • ‘Persuading the patient to be responsible for his illness can require great tact, otherwise he may adopt a moral attitude of self-condemnation because of it.’

  Synonyms

  self-reproach, self-accusation, self-condemnation, feelings of guilt, guiltiness, a guilty conscience, a bad conscience, pangs of conscience

  1. 1.1The inadvertent revelation of one's wrongdoing.