Decathect (verb)
dee-kath-ekt
to withdraw one’s feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss.
First recorded in 1955–60 in psychoanalysis.
Example sentences
“In truth he’d decathected from her the moment he learned of the cancer.”
Nowhither (adverb) noh-with-er
Word of the Day - Ergatocracy (noun) ur-gat-ok-ra-see Government by the workers.
