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musturbation

noun

Etymology

Blend of must + masturbation, coined by Dr. Albert Ellis.

  1. learned borrowing from masturbātiō
  2. borrowed from masturbation
  3. compounded as musturbation — “must + masturbation”

Definitions

  1. The compulsive insistence that things ought to be a particular way.

    • Once the parents get a handle on their own musturbation, then they are in better shape to help deal with their children
    • Musturbation makes us too sensitive to failure and I-can't-stand-it-itis makes even minor problems seem disastrous.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for musturbation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA