Usually means: Invested emotional significance into something.
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  1. cathected: Merriam-Webster
  2. cathected: Wiktionary
  3. cathected: Dictionary.com
  4. cathected: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cathected: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cathected)

▸ adjective:  Charged with mental or emotional energy.

Similar:
cathectic, catelectrotonic, affective, hypercathectic, emotioned, energetic, emotional, Catharistic, charismatic, cathodic, more...

Opposite:
unattached, detached, disengaged, aloof

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Similar:
cathectic, catelectrotonic, affective, hypercathectic, emotioned, energetic, emotional, Catharistic, charismatic, cathodic, more...

Opposite:
unattached, detached, disengaged, aloof



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