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General (12 matching dictionaries)
- reaction formation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- reaction formation: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
- reaction formation: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
- reaction formation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- reaction formation: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- reaction formation: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- Reaction Formation, Reaction-formation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- reaction formation: Rhymezone [home, info]
- reaction formation: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- reaction formation: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- reaction formation: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- reaction formation: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Business (2 matching dictionaries)
- reaction formation: Legal dictionary [home, info]
- reaction formation: Financial dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- reaction-formation, reaction formation: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
- reaction formation: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- Reaction Formation: National MCH Center for Child Death Review [home, info]
- reaction formation: Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology [home, info]
- reaction-formation, reaction formation: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- Reaction Formation: Urban Dictionary [home, info]
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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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