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hypercompensation

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Excessive compensation for something.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Manifestations of this “protection” can be various. They are — apathy, lack of interest⟳ in the surroundings, defiant behavior (hypercompensation of the inferiority complex), etc.”
“This identification gives rise⟳ to the ego alienation of the Jew from his original archetypal constellations expressed by the Jewish culture; therefore the frequent processes of unconscious hypercompensations become⟳ sources of neurosis.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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