See Also: overcompensation(medicine)
Overcompensation(health)

asyndeton (iou) and overcompensation (medicine)


asyndeton (iou)



asyndeton noun. M16.
[mod. Latin from Greek asundeton use as noun of neut. of asundetos unconnected, from A-10 + sundetos bound together.]
Rhetoric. Omission of a conjunction.

overcompensation (medicine)


overcompensation


1. An exaggeration of personal capacity by which one overcomes a real or imagined inferiority.

2. The process in which a psychologic deficiency inspires exaggerated correction.

See: compensation.