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