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单词 overidentify
释义

overidentify

verb

over·​iden·​ti·​fy ˌō-vər-ī-ˈden-tə-ˌfī How to pronounce overidentify (audio)
-ə-
overidentified; overidentifying
1
transitive + intransitive : to engage in excessive or inappropriate psychological identification
a therapist overidentifying with a client
The danger of overidentifying with animals, particularly carnivores, is that it leads people to expect human behavior of them. Dana Goodyear
[Russell] Moore worries that conservative Evangelicals have overidentified themselves not just with the particular political salvation tale of the GOP, but with old-school "American family values" as a sign of godliness. Ed Kilgore
2
transitive : to identify (something or someone) excessively and often incorrectly
the brain's tendency to overidentify faces in random shapes
overidentification
ˌō-vər-ī-ˌden-tə-fə-ˈkā-shən How to pronounce overidentify (audio)
-ə-
noun
Overidentification with the child client can undermine parents … Annette Shore
… the overidentification of some students of some backgrounds as having particular disabilities. Nirvi Shah

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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