cathect
[ kuh-thekt, ka- ]
verb (used with object)Psychoanalysis.
to invest emotion or feeling in (an idea, object, or another person).
Origin of cathect
1First recorded in 1930–35; back formation from cathectic “relating to cathexis”; see origin at cathexis
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