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overdetachment en · NOUN

Etymology

From over- + detachment.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) excessive emotional detachment
    • Overdetachment is a serious character flaw that cripples any possibility for intimacy. 2002, Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends, page 50:
    • The process of overdetachment may not stop at the failure to see the patient as a person but may go on to the unconscious fantasy that the best patient is one who is completely passive and submissive […] 2004, Janis McLarren Caldwell, Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain, page 153: