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moral injuries

moral injuries is the plural of moral injury.

Meaning of moral injury

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

Questions about moral injuries

What is moral injuries the plural of?
Moral injuries is the plural of moral injury.

Words near moral injuries in the dictionary

  1. moral hazards
  2. moral high ground
  3. moral high grounds
  4. moral imperative
  5. moral imperatives
  6. moral injuries
  7. moral injury
  8. moral low ground
  9. moral low grounds
  10. Moral Majoritarian
  11. Moral Majoritarians

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