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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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