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defense vs conversion

conversion vs defense

defense and conversion both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
defense Yes No No No
conversion Yes No No No
As nouns, conversion is a hyponym of defense; that is, conversion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than defense:
  • defense: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
  • conversion: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
Other hyponyms of defense include compensation, denial, displacement, idealisation, idealization, intellectualisation, intellectualization, isolation, projection, rationalisation, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, defensive attribition, passive aggression.
defense (noun) conversion (noun)
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown
protection from harm act of exchanging one type of money or security for another
a structure used to defend against attack a change in the units or form of an expression:
the justification for some act or belief interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions an event that results in a transformation
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively a change of religion
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring (psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic basis
an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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