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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
egodystonicity en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being egodystonic.
The patient's shame about his condition would be consistent with the psychoanalytic viewpoint that the homosexual really wants, instinctively, to be exclusively heterosexual. The admitted ("committed" or "overt") homosexual is far more exotic, controversial and threatening to the traditional psychoanalyst than one who exhibits the more familiar ego-dystonicity.
1979 August 11, Lawrence Mass, “Psychiatry on Trial”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 4, page 8:
Forms
Antonyms
egosyntonicity
Synonyms
egodystonia