OVERCOMPENSATION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • excessive compensation
   Hypernyms(s) overcompensation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • compensation (what does compensation mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
   Hypernyms(s) overcompensation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • compensation (what does compensation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • cover (what does cover mean?)
   • compensate (what does compensate mean?)
   • overcompensate (what does overcompensate mean?)