Term: rationalization: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
Candidate hypernym: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires → 1
Candidate hypernym: hyperon: any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron → 0
Candidate hypernym: omega-3 fatty acid: a polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond three carbons from the beginning → 0
Candidate hypernym: sense: a natural appreciation or ability → 0
Candidate hypernym: neglect: the state of something that has been unused and neglected → 0
Candidate hypernym: supinator: a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination → 0
Candidate hypernym: tensor tympani: a small muscle in the middle ear that tenses to protect the eardrum → 0
Candidate hypernym: avoidance: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening → 0
Candidate hypernym: power broker: a person who is important by virtue of the people or votes they control → 0
Candidate hypernym: circlet: decorated metal band worn around the head → 0
Candidate hypernym: intercommunion: participation in Holy Communion by members of more than one church (eg Catholic and Orthodox) → 0