Term: idealization: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad
Candidate hypernym: process: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states → 1
Candidate hypernym: starets: a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church → 0
Candidate hypernym: smokeless powder: an explosive (trade name Ballistite) that burns with relatively little smoke; contains pyrocellulose and is used as a propellant → 0
Candidate hypernym: spurner: a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt → 0
Candidate hypernym: priesthood: the body of ordained religious practitioners → 0
Candidate hypernym: mandator: an authority who issues a mandate → 0
Candidate hypernym: eponymy: the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person → 0
Candidate hypernym: zoysia: any of several creeping grasses of the genus Zoysia → 0
Candidate hypernym: sled dog: a dog trained to draw a sled usually in a team → 0
Candidate hypernym: endonuclease: a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes → 0
Candidate hypernym: psychologist: a scientist trained in psychology → 0