defense mechanism vs displacement

displacement vs defense mechanism

defense mechanism and displacement both are nouns.

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

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

defense mechanism: (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 mechanism include compensation, conversion, denial, idealisation, idealization, intellectualisation, intellectualization, isolation, projection, rationalisation, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, defensive attribition, passive aggression.

defense mechanism (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 defense mechanism and displacement

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