What does enabling mean?

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ɛnˈeɪ blɪŋen·abling

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. enablingadjective

    providing legal power or sanction

    "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power"

Wikipedia

  1. Enabling

    In psychotherapy and mental health, enabling has a positive sense of empowering individuals, or a negative sense of encouraging dysfunctional behavior.

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  1. enabling

    Enabling is the act of supporting or facilitating someone's negative or harmful behavior, often out of a sense of love, compassion, or a desire to protect them. It involves enabling someone to continue their destructive habits or addiction, shielding them from the consequences of their actions, and preventing them from learning to take responsibility for their behavior. Enabling ultimately hinders personal growth, recovery, and accountability for the individual involved.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Enabling

    of Enable

Wikidata

  1. Enabling

    Enabling is a term with a double meaning. As a positive term, it references patterns of interaction which allow individuals to develop and grow. These may be on any scale, for example within the family, or in wider society as "Enabling acts" designed to empower some group, or create a new authority for a body. In a negative sense, enabling is also used in the context of problematic behavior, to signify dysfunctional approaches that are intended to help but in fact may perpetuate a problem. A common theme of enabling in this latter sense is that third parties take responsibility, blame, or make accommodations for a person's harmful conduct. The practical effect is that the person himself or herself does not have to do so, and is shielded from awareness of the harm it may do, and the need or pressure to change. It is a major environmental cause of addiction. A common example of enabling can be observed in the relationship between the alcoholic/addict and a codependent spouse. The spouse believes incorrectly that he or she is helping the alcoholic by calling into work for them, making excuses that prevent others from holding them accountable, and generally cleaning up the mess that occurs in the wake of their impaired judgment. In reality what the spouse is doing is hurting, not helping. Enabling prevents psychological growth in the person being enabled and can contribute to negative symptoms in the enabler.

Editors Contribution

  1. enablingverb

    Verb form of the word enable.

    The enabling factor was love.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of enabling in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of enabling in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of enabling in a Sentence

  1. Steven Maijoor:

    The lack of clarity on the methodologies underpinning those scoring mechanisms and their diversity does not contribute to enabling investors to effectively compare investments which are marketed as sustainable, thus contributing to the risk of greenwashing, personally I believe that, where ESG ratings are used for investment purposes, ESG rating agencies should be regulated and supervised appropriately by public sector authorities.

  2. Nigel Topping:

    Achieving net-zero emissions will require transformation across the entire economy, insurance will be absolutely critical to enabling that transition and to building resilience to climate shocks.

  3. Nicole Malliotakis:

    Instead of stopping the deadly drugs streaming over our border, putting drug dealers behind bars and helping people receive the long-term treatment they need to overcome addiction, Democrat leadership is enabling illegal drug use.

  4. The British finance ministry:

    The trading plan has been a huge success so far, enabling the government to recover over 9 billion pounds for the taxpayer, and reducing the government's remaining stake in Lloyds to around 9 percent.

  5. Brad Balzer:

    We focused a lot on the aesthetics of this car because it is very important to capture the people's imaginations, especially when we are talking about the core enabling technologies.

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