overentitlement en · NOUN
Etymology
From over- + entitlement.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The condition of being overentitled.
Destructive entitlement is a term idiosyncratic to contextual therapy and refers to a sense of overentitlement accumulated by children who have been unjustly treated. They enter adult life with a sense that the world owes it to them to make up for the past[…]
2004, Richard A. Perlmutter, A Family Approach to Psychiatric Disorders, page 354: