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overdetachment

overdetachment noun: excessive emotional detachment.

Noun

overdetachment (uncountable)

  1. excessive emotional detachment
    • Overdetachment is a serious character flaw that cripples any possibility for intimacy.2002, Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends, page 50
    • The process of overdetachment may not stop at the failure to see the patient as a person but may go on to the unconscious fantasy that the best patient is one who is completely passive and submissive […]2004, Janis McLarren Caldwell, Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain, page 153

Origin of overdetachment

From over- + detachment.

Questions about overdetachment

What does overdetachment mean?
Overdetachment means excessive emotional detachment.
What part of speech is overdetachment?
Overdetachment is a noun.

Words near overdetachment in the dictionary

  1. overdesigns
  2. overdesirous
  3. overdesperate
  4. overdestructive
  5. overdestructiveness
  6. overdetachment
  7. overdetailed
  8. overdetect
  9. overdetected
  10. overdetecting
  11. overdetection

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