antishame

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ shame.

Adjective

antishame (comparative more antishame, superlative most antishame)

1. Opposing or countering shame.
   • 1988, Gary Emery, Getting un-depressed, page 120:

     Antishame exercises. Dr. Albert Ellis, a clinical psychologist, has developed a novel way for overcoming shame. He sends people out to do outlandish activities in public — such as yelling out the time of day in a department store […]

   • 1995, Silvan S. Tomkins, E. Virginia Demos, Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S Tomkins, page 184:

     The child is exposed to a verbally expressed anticontempt, antishame ideology in which the only individuals who are condemned are those who humiliate others.

   • 1997, Joseph Adamson, Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading, page 72:

     He thus strikes a posture of defiance, an antishame posture that is one of the most popular ways of combating shame in Melville's characters.

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