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Definition of cathected in English English dictionary
- Charged with mental or emotional energy
- cathect
- To focus one's emotional energies on something
- cathect
- To focus ones emotional energies on something
- cathect
- {f} (Psychoanalysis) invest emotional or mental energy in another person or idea or an object
- cathect
- inject with libidinal energy
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Etymology
[ k&-'thekt, ka- ] (transitive verb.) 1925. back-formation from cathectic.Resimler
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