Usually means: Bitter resentment from perceived injustices.
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  1. ressentiment: Merriam-Webster
  2. ressentiment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ressentiment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ressentiment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ressentiment: Wordnik
  6. ressentiment: Wiktionary
  7. ressentiment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. ressentiment: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ressentiment: Dictionary.com
  10. Ressentiment (Scheler), Ressentiment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ressentiment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ressentiment: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (ressentiment)

noun:  (chiefly philosophy, social psychology) a sense of resentment arising from deep-seated feelings of envy or hatred, leading the resentful one to blame it on an external agent.
noun:  Obsolete form of resentment. [Anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged or betrayed by others; indignation.]

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