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Etymology edit

From mis- +‎ interact +‎ -ion.

Noun edit

misinteraction (countable and uncountable, plural misinteractions)

  1. The act of misinteracting; interaction that should not occur or that occurs improperly.
    • 1982, Robert J. Langs, International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, page 129:
      When one views a possible clinical misinteraction in which the patient, out of the victim posture, provokes the aggressor potential of his therapist in the complementary mode, one may say that the therapist has formed an “identification with the aggressor."
    • 2004, David Smith Allyn, I Can't Believe I Just Did that, page 21:
      Fortunately, social scientists are coming to realize that miscommunication and misinteraction stemming from shame and self-consciousness are critical problems in human life.
    • 2004, Silvia Garagna, Mouse Genetics After the Mouse Genome, page 276:
      In fact, ATP levels in clones were not dimished; rather they were not controlled as per normal development, suggestive of nucleus cytoplasm misinteraction.
    • 2020, Lukasz Kurgan, Min Li, Yaohang Li, “The Methods and Tools for Intrinsic Disorder Prediction and their Application to Systems Medicine”, in Olaf Wolkenhauer, Julio Vera-González, Béatrice Desvergne, Shailendra Gupta, editors, Systems Medicine, page 165:
      Moreover, since proteins with IDRs carry regulatory and signaling functions that often rely on molecular interactions, their misregulation, misinteractions, and missignaling are also linked to several types of cancers, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases (Uversky et al., 2008)

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