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Meaning of hypercompensation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Excessive compensation for something.

countable, uncountable

Examples

Manifestations of thisprotectioncan be various. They areapathy, 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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