hypercompensation
hypercompensation noun: excessive compensation for something.
Noun
hypercompensation (countable and uncountable, plural hypercompensations)
- Excessive compensation for something.
- Manifestations of this “protection” can be various. They are — apathy, lack of interest in the surroundings, defiant behavior (hypercompensation of the inferiority complex), etc.2008, Vladimir Antonov, Spiritual Work With Children, page 60
- This identification gives rise to the ego alienation of the Jew from his original archetypal constellations expressed by the Jewish culture; therefore the frequent processes of unconscious hypercompensations become sources of neurosis.2011, Andrew Samuels, Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives, page 317
Forms of hypercompensation
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Origin of hypercompensation
From hyper- + compensation.
Questions about hypercompensation
- What does hypercompensation mean?
- Hypercompensation means excessive compensation for something.
- What part of speech is hypercompensation?
- Hypercompensation is a noun.
- What is the plural of hypercompensation?
- The plural of hypercompensation is hypercompensations.
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