feel-bad factor
chiefly British Politics
noun
A prevailing feeling of unease, pessimism, and (especially financial) insecurity, viewed as a factor in decreasing consumer spending and creating dissatisfaction with the government in power; the presence or inducement of a feeling of unease or unhappiness.
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in The Financial Times.
- anticonvulsant
- Anti-Corn-Law League
- anti-corruption
- antics
- anticyclone
- anticyclonic
- Anticythera mechanism
- anti-democratic
- antidepressant
- antidiarrhoeal
- anti-discrimination
- antidisestablishmentarian
- antidisestablishmentarianism
- antidiuretic hormone
- antidotal
- antidote
- antidromic
- anti-emetic
- anti-establishment
- Antietam
- antifeedant
- anti-feminism
- anti-feminist
- antiferromagnetic
- antifouling