rejection vs displacement

displacement vs rejection

rejection and displacement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rejection	Yes	No	No	No
displacement	Yes	No	No	No

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

rejection: the act of rejecting something
displacement: act of removing from office or employment

Other hyponyms of rejection include brush-off, avoidance, dodging, shunning, turning away, abandonment, desertion, forsaking, forgoing, forswearing, renunciation, nonacceptance, turndown, banishment, proscription, fuck you.

rejection (noun)	displacement (noun)
the act of rejecting something	act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
the speech act of rejecting	act of removing from office or employment
(medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign	the act of uniform movement
the state of being rejected	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 rejection and displacement

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