Term: overcompensation: (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite
Candidate hypernym: compensation: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors → 1
Candidate hypernym: southwestern lip fern: lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds → 0
Candidate hypernym: astreus pteridis: the largest earthstar; the fruiting body can measure 15 cm across when the rays are expanded → 0
Candidate hypernym: forefoot: a front foot of a quadruped → 0
Candidate hypernym: typing pool: a group of typists who can work for different persons → 0
Candidate hypernym: tropaeolaceae: coextensive with the genus Tropaeolum → 0
Candidate hypernym: corchorus: any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute → 0
Candidate hypernym: aroeira blanca: small resinous tree or shrub of Brazil → 0
Candidate hypernym: phenylalanine: an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body → 0
Candidate hypernym: tuff: hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash → 0
Candidate hypernym: aphorist: someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms → 0