shame

a self-conscious emotion associated with feelings of worthlessness or humiliation
Event psychological_terminology Q152282
shame
Raimundo Pastor · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

shame is a psychological terminology[1]. shame draws 4,095 Wikipedia views per month (psychological terminology category, ranking #10 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: negative emotion[3]
  • Part of: theory of emotion[4], remorse[5]
  • Commons category: Shame[6]
  • Said to be the same as: shame[7]
  • Opposite of: haughtiness[8]
  • Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000055[9], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/EMRO_0003003[10], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OMIT_0013646[11]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C73431[12]
  • Different from: guilt[13]
  • Exact match: http://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/vergogna_%28Sinonimi-e-Contrari%29/[14]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[15]
  • P14439: 000865[16]
  • P14541: 4E4G93[17]

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Outcome and Impact

Things named for shame include Shame[18], a film[19], directed by Steve McQueen[20]; Sram[21], a television series[22]; and aeschynite-(Ce)[23], a mineral species[24].

Why It Matters

shame has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] shame is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

Entities named for shame include Shame[18], a film[19], directed by Steve McQueen[20]; Sram[21], a television series[22]; and aeschynite-(Ce)[23], a mineral species[24].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Treccani Vocabulary. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8d ago · Mullanur · 2026-10-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → psychological terminology
    Fandom article id → memory-alpha:Shame
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ay', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'bcl', 'bg', 'bn', 'bo', 'br', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commo
    Part of → theory of emotion, remorse
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Fandom article id: memory-alpha:Shame"
  2. 28d ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → theory of emotion, remorse
    Nci thesaurus id → C73431
    Subclass of → negative emotion
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000055, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/EMRO_0003003, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OMIT_0013646
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Part of: remorse"
  3. 5w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → psychological terminology
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000055, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/EMRO_0003003, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OMIT_0013646
    P14439 → 000865
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000055"
  4. 8w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → negative emotion
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: negative emotion"
  5. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → shame
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: shame, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289959086|shame (#289959086)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  6. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4E4G93
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  7. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0228209-stud
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0228209-stud, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  8. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → theory of emotion, remorse
    Instance of → —
    Different from → guilt
    Aliases → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 4214, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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