Emotional abuse

Synonyms for "emotional abuse" (15 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
abusive personabusive policycoercive practices

Strong matches (5)

Noun(5 words)
emotional maltreatmentemotional manipulationemotional mistreatmentemotionally abusiveharmful actor

Related words (7)

Noun(7 words)
manipulative policymental abusepsychological abusepsychological harassmentviolenceworkplace bullyingworkplace harassment

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

6 entries
abuseabusive behaviorabusive conductabusive policymaltreatmentpsychological harm

More specific

12 entries
coercioncoercive tacticscontrolling behaviorcontrolling conductdevaluationgaslightinghumiliationinsultsisolationmanipulationsilent treatmentthreats

Collocations

11 entries
caregiver abusecoercive controldomestic violenceemotional abuse caseemotional abuse dynamicsemotional abuse policyemotional abuse survivoremotional abuse victimemotional harmintimate partner violencepsychological abuse

Inflections

1 entries
emotional abuses

Derivations

5 entries
emotional abuseremotional abusersemotional abusivenessemotionallyemotionally abusive