Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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overcompensation | Yes | No | No | No |
psychopathology | Yes | No | No | No |
overcompensation (noun) | psychopathology (noun) |
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excessive compensation | the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders |
(psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior |