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misintegrate

misintegrate verb: to integrate incorrectly.

Verb

misintegrate (third-person singular simple present misintegrates, present participle misintegrating, simple past and past participle misintegrated)

  1. To integrate incorrectly.
    • Thus emotions may skew our attention to external objects or cause us to misintegrate perceptual awareness, thus leading to poor judgments.1999, Bryan Register, The Logic and Validity of Emotional Appeal in Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory: What is an Emotion? (masters thesis, University of Texas at Austin)
    • In the classical model, as Arlow's description makes clear, the patient misses — "misperceives, misintegrates, and misresponds" (1985, p. 526).2009, Stephen A. Mitchell, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, page 299

Examples of misintegrate in a sentence

  • Contrasting with earlier findings, the conceptual framework reveals that service employees may not only integrate these customers' resources but also either misintegrate or not integrate them.2016 April 11, Loïc Plé, “Studying customers' resource integration by service employees in interactional value co-creation”, in Journal of...
  • Reynolds (2018) found that implicitness only increased MP among participants did not misintegrate.2020, Reed Miller Reynolds, Why Does Misinformation Persist? Cognitive Explanations of the Implicit Message Effect (PhD Dissertation...

Forms of misintegrate

third-person singular presentmisintegrates
present participlemisintegrating
past participlemisintegrated
pastmisintegrated

Origin of misintegrate

From mis- + integrate.

Questions about misintegrate

What does misintegrate mean?
Misintegrate means to integrate incorrectly.
How do you use misintegrate in a sentence?
Contrasting with earlier findings, the conceptual framework reveals that service employees may not only integrate these customers' resources but also either misintegrate or not integrate them.
What part of speech is misintegrate?
Misintegrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of misintegrate?
The past tense of misintegrate is misintegrated.

Words near misintegrate in the dictionary

  1. misinstructing
  2. misinstruction
  3. misinstructions
  4. misinstructive
  5. misinstructs
  6. misintegrate
  7. misintegrated
  8. misintegrates
  9. misintegrating
  10. misintegration
  11. misintegrations

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