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MALADJUSTMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does maladjustment mean?
• MALADJUSTMENT (noun)
The noun MALADJUSTMENT has 1 sense:
1. the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability
Familiarity information: MALADJUSTMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("maladjustment" is a kind of...):
personality disorder (inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior)
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