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underconcerned en · ADJ

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Etymology

From under- + concerned.

Meanings

1. Insufficiently concerned.
   • Conversely, those who are underconcerned with conformity and feel little worry about the ensuing shame often disregard social convention and my be quite unaware of the negative consequences they incur. 1998, Paul Gilbert, Bernice Andrews, Shame: Interpersonal Behavior, Psychopathology, and Culture, →ISBN:
   • Shestov's Abraham can be seen as one underconcerned with necessity, leaping forward blindly into possibility. 1981, Reuven P. Bulka, Journal of Psychology and Judaism - Volumes 6-8, →ISBN, page 88:
   • For example, the overly concerned father warned the child repeatedly never to put his head on the back of a movie theater seat lest he get a rare, incurable fungus, yet the underconcerned father let his child hold a Roman candle firecracker in his hand while it was discharging, and sat idly by as his son, then only five years old, cavorted on the beach for six hours in the hot sun, without benefit of lotion or clothing cover, and got a severe second-degree sunburn, which the lax father, paradoxically not caring to take control of a child who being so young needed the guidance, made no attempt even to have treated. 2017, Martin Kantor, Passive-Aggression, →ISBN, page 48:

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