Defenition of the word overcompensation

• Defenition of the word overcompensation

  • excessive compensation
  • (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite

Hypernyms for the word overcompensation

• • compensation

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