enmeshed
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7.5
- adjective
- /ɪnˈmɛʃt/
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enredado
- What he meant was it's about the extent to which the mind is kind of enmeshed with our environment.
So I'm not going to be so enmeshed in the trends of the moment.
- So I'm not going to be so enmeshed in the trends of the moment.
- But because they have that enmeshed moral community, they feel the, the kind of meaning they need in order to feel that, that spiritual health.
- So she sort of enmeshed in that world and she's struggling to get out of it, you know, But it's hard because, you know, you're surrounded by all this trauma.
- In narcissistic family systems, particularly systems that are enmeshed and very tangled, another form of gift giving can be what I call Intel.
- Having a mind of one's own is self will, a freedom still enmeshed in servitude.
- So we're not too enmeshed in that sense or as much as people might think.
- So it is so easy to kind of become enmeshed in even a threat of conversation.
- And folks this enmeshed, you stole my child from me dynamic can last forever.
Examples
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And that's why we're raising this generation of these very fragile children and very enmeshed, overly identified as being parents, parents.
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So we're not too enmeshed in that sense or as much as people might think.
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So it is so easy to kind of become enmeshed in even a threat of conversation.
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And so I would say that for parents who are very enmeshed with the experts and in peer groups, this is going to be hard.
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So I feel like at the core, I kind of grew up enmeshed in a kind of maker sensibility.
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In narcissistic family systems, particularly systems that are enmeshed and very tangled, another form of gift giving can be what I call Intel.
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The adaptation of normal infants to their social habitat is so pervasive, so enmeshed, that one can hardly disentangle the components of it.
Academic text (1997) -
The children were so enmeshed in their games that they hardly noticed the time passing.
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He felt enmeshed in the family drama, unable to escape the constant arguments around him.
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After years of being enmeshed in the project, she found it hard to separate her identity from the team.
Synonyms
114
5.2
Involved in something you did not plan and cannot easily leave
62
4.8
Very interested and completely involved in something
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7.4
Too involved in a problem or situation to get out easily
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3.3
Twisted together in a messy mass that is hard to separate
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6.0
Closely connected with someone or something
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6.9
Very involved in a difficult situation that is hard to manage
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4.9
Surrounded by mist or cloud that makes it hard to see
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6.7
Very involved in a difficult or serious problem
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7.9
Being very busy with a lot of difficult work or problems
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5.3
Twisted together, like wires, or stuck in a difficult situation
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7.8
In a bad situation that stops progress like being stuck in mud
Closely linked or mixed so they cannot be easily separated
Deeply involved in a difficult or public dispute
Having too much work or too many problems to deal with
Feeling overwhelmed by many confusing problems you cannot control
Unable to escape from a dangerous place or situation, for example when surrounded by attackers
Held with chains or by rules that stop you from acting
Antonyms
How Entangled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Enmeshed comes from the prefix en- meaning 'in' and the word mesh meaning a net or set of threads that can catch things. So to be enmeshed is like being 'in a net', deeply caught up in something and hard to escape.