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Is cathect a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cathect is a Scrabble US word. The word cathect is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is cathect a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cathect is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

C3A1T1H4E1C3T1

Is cathect a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word cathect is a Words With Friends word. The word cathect is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

CATHECT,

6-letter words (2 found)

CACHET,CATCHT,

5-letter words (10 found)

CACHE,CATCH,CHACE,CHEAT,TACET,TACHE,TEACH,TECTA,THECA,THETA,

4-letter words (22 found)

ACHE,CATE,CECA,CHAT,EACH,EATH,ECHT,ETAT,ETCH,HAET,HATE,HEAT,TACE,TACH,TACT,TATE,TATH,TEAT,TECH,TETH,THAE,THAT,

3-letter words (21 found)

ACE,ACH,ACT,ATE,ATT,CAT,CHA,CHE,EAT,ECH,ETA,ETH,HAE,HAT,HET,TAE,TAT,TEA,TEC,TET,THE,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AH,AT,CH,EA,EH,ET,HA,HE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 68 words from cathect according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cathect

cathect

Etymology

Back-formation from cathexis and cathectic. A loan creation coined by British psychoanalyst James Strachey translating Freud’s German besetzen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈθɛkt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛkt

Verb

cathect (third-person singular simple present cathects, present participle cathecting, simple past and past participle cathected)

  1. (transitive, psychology) To focus one's emotional energies on someone or something.
    • 1978 [Simon & Schuster], M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled, 2012, Random House (Rider), page 105,
      The feeling of love is the emotion that accompanies the experience of cathecting. Cathecting, it will be remembered, is the process by which an object becomes important to us. Once cathected, the object, commonly referred to as a 'love object,' is invested with our energy as if it were part of ourselves, and this relationship between the us and the invested object is called a cathexis.

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