As nouns,
survivor guilt is a hyponym of
guilty conscience; that is,
survivor guilt is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
guilty conscience:
- guilty conscience: remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense
- survivor guilt: a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died