defence mechanism vs passive aggression

passive aggression vs defence mechanism

defence mechanism and passive aggression both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defence mechanism	Yes	No	No	No
passive aggression	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, passive aggression is a hyponym of defence mechanism; that is, passive aggression is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than defence mechanism:

defence mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
passive aggression: indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.

Other hyponyms of defence mechanism include compensation, conversion, denial, displacement, idealisation, idealization, intellectualisation, intellectualization, isolation, projection, rationalisation, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, defensive attribition.

defence mechanism (noun)	passive aggression (noun)
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires	indirect expression of hostility, such as through procrastination, stubbornness, sullenness, or deliberate or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible.

Difference between defence mechanism and passive aggression

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