mismet

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
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