| 单词 | overcompensation |
| 释义 | overcompensation —overcompensatory /oh"veuhr keuhm pen"seuh tawr'ee, -tohr'ee/, adj. /oh"veuhr kom'peuhn say"sheuhn/, n. Psychoanal. 1. a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait. 2. compensation to an unnecessary or unreasonable degree: The pay was overcompensation for the work done. [1915-20; OVER- + COMPENSATION; as psychoanalytic term, trans. of Überkompensation, coined by Alfred Adler] |
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