moral injury

English

Noun

moral injury (countable and uncountable, plural moral injuries)

  1. 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.
    • 2025 April 29, Damien Cave, “How Photography From the Vietnam War Changed America”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Photojournalists also dealt with “moral injury,” long-term psychological distress that comes from witnessing actions that violated their moral beliefs.

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