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cathect

[ kuh-thekt, ka- ]

verb (used with object)

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cathect1

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

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