bereavement
意味一覧 (2件)
近親者の喪失
解説 Definition
親・配偶者・子どもなど、身近な人を死によって失う経験を指します。日常会話よりも、医療・職場・福祉・カウンセリングなど、支援や手続きの文脈で使われやすい語です。
Bereavement is the experience of losing a close family member or another person very important to you through death. It focuses on the state or situation of having been deprived of that person, not just death itself or the feeling of sadness. The word is often used in support, medical, workplace, and counseling contexts, such as when talking about leave, care, or services after a death.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
bereavement は動詞 bereave「奪う、死によって失わせる」に、名詞を作る -ment が付いた語です。death は死そのもの、grief は悲しみ、loss は広い喪失ですが、bereavement は「近しい人を亡くした経験・状態」に焦点があります。bereavement leave「忌引休暇」や bereavement support「遺族支援」のような実務的・支援的な場面で覚えると定着します。
Think of bereavement as bereave plus -ment: it is the state or experience of being bereaved. Death is the event, grief is the feeling, and loss is a broad word, but bereavement specifically refers to losing someone close through death. It is useful to remember common phrases like bereavement leave and bereavement support.
例文
She took two weeks of bereavement leave after her father's death.
父親を亡くしたあと、彼女は忌引休暇を2週間取った。
The hospital offers bereavement support for families who have lost a loved one.
その病院は、大切な人を亡くした家族に遺族支援を提供している。
His work was affected by recent bereavement, so his manager reduced his workload for a while.
最近の近親者の喪失の影響で仕事に支障が出ていたため、上司はしばらく業務量を減らした。
死別
(意味 2)解説 Definition
死別、つまり死によって大切な人と別れることを意味します。愛する者の死による悲しみや喪失感を表す言葉です。
Bereavement is the state of sadness and loss after someone close to you has died. It is often used in personal, medical, and workplace contexts. The word refers both to the loss itself and the period of grieving that follows.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
このエントリでは bereavement を「死別」という出来事として押さえます。基本義の「近親者の喪失」は支援・休暇・悲嘆の文脈まで含みやすいのに対し、ここでは死によって人と別れるという事実に焦点があります。bereave「死によって奪う」+ -ment「状態・出来事」と分解し、separation by death という硬めの表現に近い語として覚えるとよいです。
See the verb inside it: `bereave`, then add `-ment` to make a noun. `Bereavement` is usually used for the experience of losing a close person through death, not just any kind of loss. That is why it often appears in phrases like `after a bereavement` or `suffer bereavement`.
例文
She struggled with the bereavement after her husband's death.
彼女は夫の死後の死別に苦しみました。
The family received support during their time of bereavement.
家族は死別の時期にサポートを受けました。
Bereavement counseling helped him process his grief.
死別のカウンセリングは彼が悲しみを処理するのを助けました。
bereavement の語源・成り立ち Etymology
bereavement は bereave に名詞語尾 -ment が付いた語です。bereave は古英語 bereafian「奪う」に由来し、大切な人を死によって奪われる感覚が中心にあります。
Bereavement comes from the verb bereave plus the noun ending -ment. Bereave comes from Old English bereafian, meaning "to rob" or "to take away." Over time, it came to mean being deprived of a loved one through death.
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