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overdeference

noun

Etymology

From over- + deference.

  1. borrowed from déférence
  2. prefixed as overdeference — “over + deference”

Definitions

  1. Excessive deference.

    • In such situations, whites often reflect their consciousness of group membership by overdeference which is as embarrassing to Negroes as condescension.
    • Fifty years later, she even blamed her mother for overdeference to the doctors when she was ill with polio.

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