Definition of Sense of shame

1. Noun. A motivating awareness of ethical responsibility.

Exact synonyms: Sense Of Duty
Generic synonyms: Conscience, Moral Sense, Scruples, Sense Of Right And Wrong

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sense Of Shame

sense impression
sense modality
sense of balance
sense of craft
sense of direction
sense of duty
sense of equilibrium
sense of hearing
sense of humor
sense of humour
sense of identity
sense of movement
sense of purpose
sense of responsibility
sense of right and wrong
sense of shame (current term)
sense of smell
sense of taste
sense of the meeting
sense of touch
sense organ
sense organs
sense strand
sense strands
sensed
senseful
sensei
senseis
sensel
senseless

Literary usage of Sense of shame

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"In this article, Viazzi, the author of a work on " Sexual Criminals," in which he sustained in detail the view that woman has a greater sense of shame than ..."

2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1897)
"It would not be right to speak of a sense of shame Shame. ... We consider that the young ought to show a sense of shame, as their life being directed by ..."

3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"It proved to be a source of great calamity, for the first pair were at once filled with a sense of shame and realized that they were naked; they were filled ..."

4. Lectures on Teaching Delivered in the University of Cambridge During the by Joshua Girling Fitch (1881)
"... the sense of shame seldom succeed. One reason is that they are so unequal. They fall so differently ..."

5. The Sexual life of the child by Albert Moll (1919)
"Similar relations exist for the sense of disgust, which is allied to the sense of shame. Shame is felt in the performance of an action disgusting to others, ..."

6. Studies in Theism by Borden Parker Bowne (1879)
"... are egoists rather than pessimists, and what they need is not so much argument as a keener sense of shame. We consider, next, some specific objections. ..."

7. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The exaltation of benevolence was a Ingi- cal outcome of a practical accompaniment of a sense of shame. Malice would be fatal to the highest instinct of ..."

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