What does «culpa del sobreviviente» mean in Spanish?
- A deep sense of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that claimed the lives of many others; it derives partly from a feeling that they did not do enough to save others who perished and partly from feelings of being unworthy in relation to those who died. It is a kind of guilty conscience.
Examples of use in Spanish: "la culpa del sobreviviente se notó por primera vez en quienes sobrevivieron al Holocausto".