displacement vs defense mechanism

displacement and defense mechanism both are nouns.

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

As nouns, defense mechanism is a hypernym of displacement; that is, defense 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
defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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

displacement (noun)	defense 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 defense mechanism

displacement and defense mechanism both are nouns.

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