Overcompensation
nounid
102827·updated May 18, 2026verified
(psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
polysemous
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Variants
- plural
- Overcompensations
- possessive
- Overcompensation's
- pluralpossessive
- Overcompensations'
Framework definitions
- §1
- excessive compensation
- §2
- (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
- §1 · legacy_primary
- (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its oppositeDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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