overinhibited
English
Etymology
over- + inhibited
Adjective
overinhibited (comparative more overinhibited, superlative most overinhibited)
- (psychology) Excessively inhibited.
- 1946, Lester Eugene Hewitt, Richard Leos Jenkins, Fundamental patterns of maladjustment: the dynamics of their origin
- Twenty-five overinhibited children and twenty-five unsocialized aggressive children were followed up in the spring of 1944.
- 1968, Richard Courtney, Play, drama and thought
- Overinhibited children often benefit cathartically from dramatic play.
- 1946, Lester Eugene Hewitt, Richard Leos Jenkins, Fundamental patterns of maladjustment: the dynamics of their origin