defense reaction vs regression

regression vs defense reaction

defense reaction and regression both are nouns.

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

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

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

defense reaction (noun)	regression (noun)
(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires	returning to a former state
	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)
	(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
	an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

Difference between defense reaction and regression

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