displacement vs defence mechanism

displacement and defence mechanism both are nouns.

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

As nouns, defence mechanism is a hypernym of displacement; that is, defence mechanism is a word with a broader meaning than displacement:

displacement: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
defence mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

Other hypernyms of displacement include defence, defence reaction, defense, defense mechanism, defense reaction.

displacement (noun)	defence mechanism (noun)
act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics	(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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

displacement vs defence mechanism

displacement and defence mechanism both are nouns.

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