Mismeet

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To come together but fail to properly communicate or connect in positive ways.

    "Perhaps more than any other it illustrates both the meeting and the mismeeting of religion and psychology."

  2. 2
    To fail to properly satisfy or comply with.

    "In such pathological relatedness, the child's archaic security needs (which are developmentally immature and of a grandiose and idealizing nature) either go unmet or are mismet."

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"Perhaps more than any other it illustrates both the meeting and the mismeeting of religion and psychology."

Etymology

From mis- + meet.

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