guilt

emotional experience arising when one believes they have violated personal or universal moral standards and feels responsible for the transgression
Event negative_emotion Q628939
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guilt

Summary

guilt is a negative emotion[1]. guilt draws 724 Wikipedia views per month (negative_emotion category, ranking #18 of 34).[2]

Key Facts

  • guilt's instance of is recorded as negative emotion[3].
  • guilt is a type of feeling[4].
  • guilt is part of psychological terminology[5].
  • guilt's Commons category is recorded as Guilt (emotion)[6].
  • guilt's said to be the same as is recorded as guilt[7].
  • guilt's said to be the same as is recorded as remorse[8].
  • guilt's said to be the same as is recorded as fault[9].
  • guilt is the opposite of clear conscience[10].
  • guilt's has cause is recorded as knowledge[11].
  • guilt's facet of is recorded as conscience[12].
  • guilt's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[13].
  • guilt's partially coincident with is recorded as shame[14].
  • guilt's partially coincident with is recorded as self-blame[15].
  • guilt's different from is recorded as Guilt[16].
  • guilt's different from is recorded as guilty[17].
  • guilt's different from is recorded as shame[18].
  • guilt's different from is recorded as culpability[19].
  • guilt's studied by is recorded as psychology[20].
  • guilt's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21].

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Context

guilt is part of psychological terminology[5]. guilt's instance of is recorded as negative emotion[3].

Why It Matters

guilt draws 724 Wikipedia views per month (negative_emotion category, ranking #18 of 34).[2] guilt has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] guilt is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of
    Facet of conscience
    Said to be the same as guilt, remorse, fault
    Studied by psychology
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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