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receptive character

in the psychoanalytic theory of Erich Fromm, a passive, dependent, and compliant, or conforming, personality type: roughly equivalent to the oral-receptive personality (see oral personality) or the passive-dependent personality (see dependent personality disorder) described by others. Such an individual is said to be of a receptive orientation.

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non compos mentis

non compos mentis

in law, mentally deficient or legally insane and therefore not responsible for one’s conduct. See incompetence; insanity. Compare compos mentis.