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overentitlement

overentitlement noun: the condition of being overentitled.

Noun

overentitlement (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being overentitled.
    • Destructive entitlement is a term idiosyncratic to contextual therapy and refers to a sense of overentitlement accumulated by children who have been unjustly treated. They enter adult life with a sense that the world owes it to them to make up for the past[…]2004, Richard A. Perlmutter, A Family Approach to Psychiatric Disorders, page 354

Origin of overentitlement

From over- + entitlement.

Questions about overentitlement

What does overentitlement mean?
Overentitlement means the condition of being overentitled.
What part of speech is overentitlement?
Overentitlement is a noun.

Words near overentitlement in the dictionary

  1. overenthusiasm
  2. overenthusiasms
  3. overenthusiastic
  4. overenthusiastically
  5. overentitled
  6. overentitlement
  7. overenunciate
  8. overenunciated
  9. overenunciates
  10. overenunciating
  11. overenunciation

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