defense mechanism vs projection

projection vs defense mechanism

defense mechanism and projection both are nouns.

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

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

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

defense mechanism (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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