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- adjective
Assimilated too far intosociety .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was also the fact that the Unabomer himself unleashed a scathing, and rather delightful, attack on the "oversocialized" left in his manifesto.
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We use the term "oversocialized" to describe such people.
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We use the term "oversocialized" to describe such people.
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Do lots of things I wouldn't do I'm a wuss and way oversocialized.
Why to choose "Cripple" with your guidance counselor, some gifts, my day! Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Leftists may claim that their activism is motivated by compassion or by moral principle, and moral principle does play a role for the leftist of the oversocialized type.
Think Progress » Loyalty to Bush is this Administration’s Affirmative Action Policy 2006
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The oversocialized person cannot do these things, or if he does do them he generates in himself a sense of shame and self-hatred.
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In many oversocialized people this results in a sense of constraint and powerlessness that can be a severe hardship.
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The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think "unclean" thoughts.
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It may seem senseless to say that many leftists are oversocialized, since the leftist is perceived as a rebel.
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Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him.
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