mismirror

present singular third person mismirrors · participle present mismirroring · participle past mismirrored · past mismirrored

1. To provide a distorted reflection of

   One mirror must mirror another; each mirror mismirrors the other.

   2015, Robert Chandler, Irina Mashinski, Boris Dralyuk, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry

   3 more examples

   Each time, Helga's vulnerable and defensively haughty self approaches a potential mirror and is, or perceives itself to be, mismirrored.

   1997, Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, Female Subjects in Black and White, page 258

   The interpersonal self thus comes into being as a result of experiences with interpersonal mirroring or mismirroring, that is, approval or disapproval.

   2014, Marylou Lionells, John Fiscalini, Carola Mann, Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis

   In the second version the mother misreads (mismirrors) her baby's messages because she cannot tolerate the baby's sensuous/sexual arousal, or its pain and neediness, or its desperation.

   2014, Lewis Aron, Adrienne Harris, Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 4: Expansion of Theory, page 336