"Giver's remorse"

[Wilson Gray]

I heard this for the first time, today. The speaker used it to mean,
"unhappy as a consequence of having underestimated the value of
something that could have been sold, but which was, instead, given
away."

Twenty-six Googlits, wherein the word is seems to be used primarily in
the meaning, "unhappy as a consequence of having given a gift that the
recipient didn't like."

-Wilson Gray

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