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crazymaking

crazymaking noun: a form of psychological attack on somebody by offering contradictory alternatives and criticizing the person for choosing either.

Noun

crazymaking (uncountable)

  1. (common) A form of psychological attack on somebody by offering contradictory alternatives and criticizing the person for choosing either.
    • Crazymaking interactions can occur between parent and child, husband and wife, employer and employee, and among friends. Of course, the most lethal of such interactions are found within the context of the parent-child relationship[…]1974, George Robert Bach, Herb Goldberg, Creative Aggression: The Art of Assertive Living, page 86
    • If you're the one left behind, you might be thrust into a pattern of crazymaking, or you might find you're just coming out of one.2005, Loriann Hoff Oberlin, Surviving Separation and Divorce, page 1

Origin of crazymaking

From crazy + making.

Questions about crazymaking

What does crazymaking mean?
Crazymaking means a form of psychological attack on somebody by offering contradictory alternatives and criticizing the person for choosing either.
What part of speech is crazymaking?
Crazymaking is a noun.

Words near crazymaking in the dictionary

  1. crazying up
  2. crazyish
  3. crazyitis
  4. crazymaker
  5. crazymakers
  6. crazymaking
  7. crazyness
  8. crazypants
  9. crazyquilt
  10. crazyquilted
  11. crazyquilting

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