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defence mechanism
 
Noun defence mechanism has 1 sense
  1. defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence - (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
    --1 is a kind of psychoanalytic process; process, unconscious process
    --1 has particulars:
     compensation; conversion; denial; displacement; idealization, idealisation; intellectualization, intellectualisation; isolation; projection; rationalization, rationalisation; reaction formation; regression; repression
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