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[ adjective ] causing an emotional disturbance

Synonyms

upsetting

Examples

"his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen "an upsetting experience"

Used in print

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now , despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me , sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like .

Related terms

displeasing

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