defence reaction vs projection

projection vs defence reaction

defence reaction and projection both are nouns.

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

As nouns, projection is a hyponym of defence reaction; that is, projection 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
projection: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

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

defence reaction (noun)	projection (noun)
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires	the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
	the act of projecting out from something
	any structure that branches out from a central support
	the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
	a planned undertaking
	a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
	the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
	the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
	any solid convex shape that juts out from something

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