transference

1. 1.

   (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst

   Broaderdisplacement

   Narrowercountertransference

   psychoanalysis

2. 2.

   transferring ownership

   Synonymstransfer

   Broadertransaction

   Narroweralienationconveyancequitclaimlend-leasesecularization
3. 3.

   the act of transfering something from one form to another

   “the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise”

   Synonymstransfer

   Broaderchange of state

Other forms of transference

plural

transferences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about transference

What does transference mean?

transference means "(psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transference?

transference has 3 syllables: trans-fe-rence. The stress falls on "fe". In IPA it is /tɹænˈsfɝəns/.

What is another word for transference?

Close synonyms include transfer, transfer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transference a common word?

transference is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.