Definitions for enabling
ɛnˈeɪ blɪŋen·abling

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1. enablingadjective

   providing legal power or sanction

   "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power"

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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.

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1. Enabling

   of Enable

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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.

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1. enablingverb

   Verb form of the word enable.

   The enabling factor was love.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 4, 2020  

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   Karen

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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. Jamal Khashoggi:

   The promise of accountability was the only check on this guy [ MBS ], now it's gone, when the President of the US goes to this murderer's hometown to appease him, he's not only glossing over his past heinous crimes with stunning impunity but enabling his future ones. It's a wink-wink nudge-nudge to commit the next crime in a cleaner, less messy fashion.

2. Gabriela Bucher:

   Inequality at such pace and scale is happening by choice, not chance, not only have our economic structures made all of us less safe against this pandemic, they are actively enabling those who are already extremely rich and powerful to exploit this crisis for their own profit.

3. North Korea:

   The reasons are diverse, but include lack of political will, inadequate enabling legislation, lack of understanding of the resolutions and low prioritization.

4. 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.

5. Rocket Lab:

   We’re not about building a rocket; we’re about enabling the small satellite revolution.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=enabling
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enabling
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=enabling