overentitlement

English

Etymology

over- +‎ entitlement

Noun

overentitlement (uncountable)

1. The condition of being overentitled.
   • 2004, Richard A. Perlmutter, A Family Approach to Psychiatric Disorders, page 354:

     Destructive entitlement is a term idiosyncratic to contextual therapy and refers to a sense of overentitlement accumulated by children who have been unjustly treated. They enter adult life with a sense that the world owes it to them to make up for the past […]