mismeet

Verb

mismeet (third-person singular simple present mismeets, present participle mismeeting, simple past and past participle mismet)

1. To come together but fail to properly communicate or connect in positive ways.
   • Perhaps more than any other it illustrates both the meeting and the mismeeting of religion and psychology.1992, Maurice Friedman, Religion and Psychology: A Dialogical Approach, page 45
   • The noble task of the teacher is to be attentive to his students, in order not to 'mismeet' the graced occasions of dialogue, as already noted.1993, Kalman Yaron, “Martin Buber”, in Prospects, volume 23, page 138
2. To fail to properly satisfy or comply with.
   • In such pathological relatedness, the child's archaic security needs (which are developmentally immature and of a grandiose and idealizing nature) either go unmet or are mismet.1994, John Fiscalini, “Narcissism and coparticipant inquiry: Explorations in contemporary interpersonal psychoanalysis”, in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, volume 30, number 4
   • These may be typified by situations in which the affect, plan, expectancy, need state, communication, or other function of the baby is unmet or mismet by the parent or caregiver.2014, Gerald Stechler, “Infancy research: A contribution to self psychology”, in Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Samuel Kaplan, editors, Reflections on Self Psychology, page 47