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reaction formation is a noun meaning "(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them". It carries one recorded sense.
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them
“his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive”
psychiatry
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for reaction formation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. .