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antishame en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + shame.

Meanings

1. Opposing or countering shame.
   • He thus strikes a posture of defiance, an antishame posture that is one of the most popular ways of combating shame in Melville's characters. 1997, Joseph Adamson, Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading, page 72:
   • The child is exposed to a verbally expressed anticontempt, antishame ideology in which the only individuals who are condemned are those who humiliate others. 1995, Silvan S. Tomkins, E. Virginia Demos, Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S Tomkins, page 184:
   • Antishame exercises. Dr. Albert Ellis, a clinical psychologist, has developed a novel way for overcoming shame. He sends people out to do outlandish activities in public — such as yelling out the time of day in a department store[…] 1988, Gary Emery, Getting un-depressed, page 120:

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