overprotectiveness

English

Etymology

overprotective + -ness

Noun

overprotectiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being overprotective.
    • 1982, Rita Beck Black, Bruce P. Hermann, Jean Thatcher Shope, Nursing Management of Epilepsy, page 97:
      Among the reactions with which the child must learn to cope are overprotectiveness, overpermissiveness, anger or embarrassment, and rejection by society .

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