antishame

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9

Definition of antishame

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Opposing or countering shame.
    “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[…]”
    “The child is exposed to a verbally expressed anticontempt, antishame ideology in which the only individuals who are condemned are those who humiliate others.”
    “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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Etymology

From anti- + shame.

Anagrams of antishame

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