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other-directed
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oth·er-di·rect·ed (r-d-rktd, -d-)
adj.
Directed or guided chiefly by external standards as opposed to one's own standards or values.


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In 1980, Riesman detected a change to other-directedness, which compels people to listen to an outside radar, to base their decisions (and values or tastes) on those of others.
Are there not enough signs of imminent exhaustion that we should study our other-directedness and our time-binding in the light of a depletion index?
Yet other than Marianne, whom we tolerate because she is seventeen and in love (but she plays the piano extremely well, which must have required much practice), and Emma, whose errors occur in the contexts of misplaced other-directedness and whom many of us love because she truly feels sorry for her errors, and she is extremely patient with and loving to her taxing father, Austen's women do not fall into the hapless and helpless category of most of today's film and novel heroines.
 
 
 
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