Shame Glossary

Shame: A Glossary of Terms 

A list of shame terms the project team has encountered in the literature about shame and shame experiences.

• Acute Shame
• Adaptive Shame
• Anticipated Shame
• Anti-Shame
• Body Shame
• Blushing
• Bypassed Shame
• Chagrin
• Chronic Shame
• Circle of Shame
• Collective Shame
• Conformity Shame
• Contagious Shame
• Contained Shame
• Cybershaming
• Disavowed Shame
• Discretion Shame
• Disgrace Shame
• Dishonour
• Disintegrative Shame
• Dispositional Shame
• Dissociated Shame
• Embarrassment
• Empathic Shame
• Everyday Shame
• External Shame
• Gay Shame
• Generational Shame
• Global Shame
• Group-Based Shame
• Guilt
• Healthy Shame
• Honour
• Humiliation
• Internal Shame
• Internalized Shame
• I-Shame
• Maladaptive Shame
• Me-Shame
• Meta-Affectual Shame
• Mortification
• Public Shame
• Protective Shame
• Online Shame
• Ontological Shame
• Open Shame
• Original Shame
• Primitive Shame
• Primordial Shame
• Proto-Affect Shame
• Queer Shame
• Reflected Shame
• Reparative Shame
• Repressed Shame

• Saving Face
• Secret Shame
• Self-conscious Emotion
• Self-consciousness
• Sexual Shame
• Shame
• Shamefaced
• Shamefastness
• Shamelessness
• Shame Anxiety
• Shame-Based
• Shame Bound
• Shame Culture
• Shame-of-existing
• Shame-Humiliation
• Shame-Prone
• Shame Scripts
• Shame Spirals
• Shame Subjectivity
• Shame Work
• Shaming
• Sharam
• Sidebar of Shame
• State Shame
• Stigma
• Survivor Shame
• Toxic Shame
• Trait Shame
• Traumatic Shame
• Ubiquitous Shame
• Unbounded Shame
• Uncontained Shame
• Unhealthy Shame
• Unshame
• Vicarious Shame
• Weaponized Shame