sense of shame

1. 1.

   a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility

   Synonymssense of duty

   Broaderconscience

Questions about sense of shame

What does sense of shame mean?

sense of shame means "a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility".

What is another word for sense of shame?

Close synonyms include sense of duty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sense of shame a common word?

sense of shame is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.