NOUN
- (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
- excessive compensation
How To Use overcompensation In A Sentence
- The combination of overcompensation and obfuscation has created uncertainty. Times, Sunday Times
- The reasons behind this may well be the influence of their parents' overcompensation for their distance from the old country, in the way they try to reconstruct that culture for their children's upbringing.
- I suspect its some kind of puritan overcompensation for their long-term flirtation with those wicked, wicked Kennedy boys. SurveyUSA: Hillary And Romney Way Ahead In Massachusetts
- Also, don't sweat the interpersonal communication faux pas of over assertion (being the only woman in a roomful of men causes the occasional overcompensation). No More Sparks On Podcasts
- A ratio greater than 1.0 indicates overcompensation.
- Then again, stereotypes concerning "overcompensation" were invented out of envy and are projected by those who are afraid to admit that they too would love to own such a machine. News Tom's Hardware US
- SECOND OPINION: Hameed Gul: strategic 'overcompensation' - Khaled Ahmed's TV Review Tuesday, Bloggers.Pakistan
- A certain measure of 'judge overcompensation' was noticeable within seconds. Times, Sunday Times
- *snort* Some kind of overcompensation for something, methinks? Star Trek Pants
- Her stridency on this particular point suggests overcompensation: the professionalism she so decried in her public writings was perhaps so troubling because she was so implicated in it herself.
