overparent
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person or entity in a position of greater authority than a parent who takes on some aspect of the parental role or authority.
noun
The role of the state in caring for and nurturing its citizens.
Example Sentences
- "I think we have a tendency today to overparent, micromanage, and underappreciate our adolescents."
- "When you overparent, you weaken your child's self-image, suffocating her so that your child comes to believe, I guess I don't have what it takes to get by without Dad's and Mom's help."
- "Both restrictive and indulgent parents can either underparent or overparent."
- "Slum children will be provided the assurance of this " overparent " as a guarantee against the underfed, vermin-infested children found in the London schools inspected at the outset of the century."
- "If Father is the typical male underparent, as he generally is, it is not that he is a failure, except by overparent standards."
- "In order to cushion the blow of this disillusionment they ascribe the power and perfection they once believed a parent had to an overparent, a divine being."
Etymology
From over- + parent.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over