Meaning of OVERCOMPENSATION
| Pronunciation: | | 'owvur`kâmpunseyshun
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- [n] excessive compensation
- [n] (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
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OVERCOMPENSATION is a 16 letter word that starts with O. |
| | See Also: | | compensation, compensation | |
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| | Related Terms: | | alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, compensation, decompensation, defense mechanism, dereism, dereistic thinking, displacement, dissociation, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, isolation, negativism, projection, psychotaxis, rationalization, resistance, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, wishful thinking, wish-fulfillment fantasy, withdrawal |
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