Remorse vs Disappointment - What's the difference?
remorse | disappointment |
A feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning.
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(obsolete) Sorrow; pity; compassion.
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(uncountable) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
(countable) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
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As nouns the difference between remorse and disappointment
is that remorse is a feeling of regret or sadness for doing wrong or sinning while disappointment is (uncountable) the emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.remorse
English
(wikipedia remorse)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
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- Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.
- This is the bloodiest shame,
- The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
- That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
- Presented to the tears of soft remorse .
Synonyms
* (regret or sadness for doing wrong) agenbite, compunction, contrition, penitence, repentance, self-reproach * See alsoDerived terms
(Terms derived from "remorse") * buyer's remorse * remorselessHypernyms
* regret, sadnessSee also
* apologydisappointment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."'' — ''Today , News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992
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- As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.'' — ''Cabinet , Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990