defence reaction vs displacement

displacement vs defence reaction

defence reaction and displacement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defence reaction	Yes	No	No	No
displacement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, displacement is a hyponym of defence reaction; that is, displacement is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than defence reaction:

defence reaction: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
displacement: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

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

defence reaction (noun)	displacement (noun)
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires	act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
	act of removing from office or employment
	the act of uniform movement
	to move something from its natural environment
	an event in which something is displaced without rotation
	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
	(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

Difference between defence reaction and displacement

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