siege mentality
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From siege + mentality, from the experience of military defenses of real sieges.
Noun
[edit]siege mentality (countable and uncountable, plural siege mentalities)
- A collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness, in which a group of people believe themselves to be constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.
Translations
[edit]collective feeling of victimization and defensiveness
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