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guided by a set of values that is derived from current trends or outward influences rather than from within oneself

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Usage examples (36)
  • It inverts Lenin's query by becoming other-directed.
  • You may always be, as the modern jargon has it, other-directed.
  • If you are other-directed, you will be more outraged that she would consider straying at all.
  • And that is the antithesis of real love, which is totally self-forgetting and other-directed.
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