underbounded

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of underbound

comparative more underbounded · superlative most underbounded

1. Having insufficient boundaries.

   In underbounded systems people feel fragmented and isolated.

   1983, Barry Alan Farber, Stress and Burnout in the Human Service Professions, page 151

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   In an underbounded focal group, members feel chaotic, disorganized, dissatisfied, and ineffectual.

   2010, Clayton Alderfer, The Practice of Organizational Diagnosis: Theory and Methods, →ISBN

   Conversely, underbounded people often identify with everyone but themselves.

   2013, Elliot Greene, Barbara Goodrich-Dunn, The Psychology of the Body, →ISBN, page 172