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cathect

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[kuh-thekt, ka-] / kəˈθɛkt, kæ- /

verb (used with object)

Psychoanalysis.

  1. to invest emotion or feeling in (an idea, object, or another person).

Etymology

Origin of cathect

First recorded in 1930–35; back formation from cathectic “relating to cathexis”; cathexis

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