1. (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite 
2. Excessive compensation

Derived forms: overcompensations

See also: overcompensate

Type of: compensation

Encyclopedia: Overcompensation

• epicyclic gear train
• epicyclic train
• epicyclical
• epicycloid
• epideictic
• epideictic oratory
• epideictical
• epidemic
• epidemic cholera
• epidemic disease
• epidemic encephalitis
• epidemic hysertia
• epidemic meningitis
• epidemic myalgia
• epidemic parotitis
• epidemic pleurodynia
• epidemic roseola
• epidemically
• epidemiologic
• epidemiological
• epidemiologist
• epidemiology
• epidemy
• epidendron
• Epidendrum