Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overpersonalize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-per-son-al-ize
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To attribute too much of the cause of something to personal decisions and willpower, and not enough to other factors.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Putting this approach into action requires resisting our inclination to overpersonalize our role in problems and miss the systemwide issues."
"Research on abusive parent-child relationships has found that parents often overpersonalize the child's behavior, attributing more negative than positive motivations to the child."
"A second key skill for sustaining your emotional coherence is learning not to overpersonalize your deficits, since this just makes the energy drain worse."

Etymology

From over- + personalize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

overpersonalizes (present, singular) overpersonalizing (participle, present) overpersonalized (participle, past) overpersonalized (past) overpersonalise (alternative)

Antonyms

underpersonalize

Questions

What does overpersonalize mean?: To attribute too much of the cause of something to personal decisions and willpower, and not enough to other factors.
Where does overpersonalize come from?: From over- + personalize.

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