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overcompensation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun overcompensation has 2 senses
- overcompensation(n = noun.process) - (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite; is a kind of compensation
- overcompensation(n = noun.possession) - excessive compensation; is a kind of compensation
Derived form verb overcompensate1
THESAURUS
overcompensation
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, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal
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