mismeet

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To come together but fail to properly communicate or connect in positive ways.

   • Perhaps more than any other it illustrates both the meeting and the mismeeting of religion and psychology.
   • The noble task of the teacher is to be attentive to his students, in order not to 'mismeet' the graced occasions of dialogue, as already noted.
2. 2

   To fail to properly satisfy or comply with.

   • In such pathological relatedness, the child's archaic security needs (which are developmentally immature and of a grandiose and idealizing nature) either go unmet or are mismet.
   • These may be typified by situations in which the affect, plan, expectancy, need state, communication, or other function of the baby is unmet or mismet by the parent or caregiver.

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