defense vs displacement

displacement vs defense

defense and displacement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
defense	Yes	No	No	No
displacement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, displacement is a hyponym of defense; that is, displacement 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
displacement: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

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

defense (noun)	displacement (noun)
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies	act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury	act of removing from office or employment
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him	the act of uniform movement
protection from harm	to move something from its natural environment
a structure used to defend against attack	an event in which something is displaced without rotation
the justification for some act or belief	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions	(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound
the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
(sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
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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