overentitlement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over- +‎ entitlement

Noun[edit]

overentitlement (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being overentitled.
    • 2004, Richard A. Perlmutter, A Family Approach to Psychiatric Disorders, page 354:
      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 […]
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