Overcompensation
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
(psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Overcompensations
- possessive
- Overcompensation's
- pluralpossessive
- Overcompensations'