Plural of guilt; multiple instances or types of feelings of responsibility for wrongdoing.
From guilt (Old English gylt) + -s (plural marker). The plural form acknowledges that people can experience different guilts for different actions or carry guilt about multiple things simultaneously.
Psychologists recognize that people often carry multiple guilts at once—guilt over a past mistake, guilt for not helping someone, guilt for not living up to potential—and the plural form guilts captures this layered emotional reality.
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