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overinhibited en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + inhibited.

Meanings

1. Excessively inhibited.
   • Overinhibited children often benefit cathartically from dramatic play. 1968, Richard Courtney, Play, drama and thought:
   • Twenty-five overinhibited children and twenty-five unsocialized aggressive children were followed up in the spring of 1944. 1946, Lester Eugene Hewitt, Richard Leos Jenkins, Fundamental patterns of maladjustment: the dynamics of their origin:

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