Associations to the word «Maladjustment»

Wiktionary

MALADJUSTMENT, noun. A poor or faulty adjustment, especially of a mechanism
MALADJUSTMENT, noun. (psychology) The inability to adjust oneself to the needs of others, or to the stresses of normal life

Dictionary definition

MALADJUSTMENT, noun. The condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope