defense reaction

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noun

(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
• Syn:
defense mechanism, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence
• Topics:
psychiatry, psychopathology, psychological medicine
• Hypernyms:
psychoanalytic process, process, unconscious process
• Hyponyms:
compensation, conversion, denial, displacement, idealization,
idealisation, intellectualization, intellectualisation, isolation, projection, rationalization,
rationalisation, reaction formation, regression, repression