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overcompensation
 
Noun overcompensation has 2 senses
  1. overcompensation - (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
    --1 is a kind of     compensation
    Derived form: verb overcompensate1
  2. overcompensation - excessive compensation
    --2 is a kind of     compensation
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