Overentitlement

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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

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"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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