moral injury
moral injury · moral injuries
Harm to an individual's moral conscience and values, resulting from an act of…Harm to an individual's moral conscience and values, resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves or others, and accompanied by guilt, shame, anger, etc.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)Harm to an individual's moral conscience and values, resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves or others, and accompanied by guilt, shame, anger, etc.
Translations
2 languagesForms
plural: moral injuries| Singular | moral injury |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedmoral distress
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable