Meaning of MALADJUSTMENT
Pronunciation: | | `malu'justmunt
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| Definition: | | [n] the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability |
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| See Also: | | personality disorder | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Mal`ad*just"ment\, n. [Mal- + adjustment.]
A bad adjustment.
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| Related Terms: | | abnormality, anomaly, brain disease, crack-up, emotional disorder, emotional instability, functional nervous disorder, impropriety, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptness, infelicity, insanity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, maladroitness, manic-depressive psychosis, mediocrity, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, mesalliance, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, paranoia, pedestrianism, personality disorder, problems in living, psychosis, reaction, rustiness, schizophrenia, skill-lessness, social maladjustment, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, uncongeniality, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, untrainedness |
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