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negative transference

in psychoanalysis, a patient’s transfer onto the analyst or therapist of feelings of anger or hostility that the patient originally felt toward parents or other significant individuals during childhood. Compare positive transference.

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ordinate

ordinate

n. the vertical coordinate in a graph or data plot; that is, the y-axis. See also abscissa.