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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of a personality, characterized by both passiveness, a lack of self-reliance, and emotional overdependence on others. not-comparable

Etymology

From passive + dependent. First use appears c. 1949 in the publication Pyschological Problems in Mental Deficiency.

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