defense vs regression

regression vs defense

defense and regression both are nouns.

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

As nouns, regression is a hyponym of defense; that is, regression 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
regression: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

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

defense (noun)	regression (noun)
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies	returning to a former state
the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury	the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)
a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
protection from harm	an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
a structure used to defend against attack
the justification for some act or belief
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
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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