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상대적 박탈감

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상대적 박탈감을 느끼다 · 상대적 박탈감이 들다

relative deprivation, feeling left behind compared to others

Example

친구들이 집을 사는 걸 보니 상대적 박탈감을 느껴요.

Seeing my friends buy homes makes me feel relatively deprived.

Word parts

상 mutual대 facing적 -ive박 strip탈 seize감 feeling

상대적 'relative' + 박탈감 'feeling of being stripped of something'.

Good to know

Very common in news and social media about wealth gaps, housing prices and social comparison.