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General dictionaries General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaction formation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. reaction formation: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
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  4. reaction formation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  5. reaction formation: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  6. reaction formation: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  7. Reaction Formation, Reaction-formation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  8. reaction formation: Rhymezone [home, info]
  9. reaction formation: Free Dictionary [home, info]
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Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaction formation: Legal dictionary [home, info]
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Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reaction-formation, reaction formation: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. reaction formation: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. Reaction Formation: National MCH Center for Child Death Review [home, info]
  3. reaction formation: Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology [home, info]
  4. reaction-formation, reaction formation: Medical dictionary [home, info]

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  1. Reaction Formation: Urban Dictionary [home, info]


Quick definitions from WordNet (reaction formation)

▸ noun:  (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them ("His strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive")

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