WordNet: displacement

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

• domain: topic psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology

• hypernym defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction

• hyponym transference

displacement

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