siege mentality
siege mentality · siege mentalities
Wagenburgmentalität
A collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness, in which a group of people…A collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness, in which a group of people believe themselves to be constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness, in which a group of people believe themselves to be constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.
Wagenburgmentalität
Translations
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By meaning 1
collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness:
Origin
From siege + mentality, from the experience of military defenses of real sieges.From siege + mentality, from the experience of military defenses of real sieges.
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Forms
plural: siege mentalities| Singular | siege mentality |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedtrench mentality
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable