Overentitlement
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The condition of being overentitled. uncountable
"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[…]"
Example
More examples"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[…]"
Etymology
From over- + entitlement.
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