Term: compensation: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Candidate hypernym: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires → 1
Candidate hypernym: genus chinchilla: type genus of the Chinchillidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: suspension: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: dry rot: a crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus → 0
Candidate hypernym: axseed: European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods → 0
Candidate hypernym: new world mouse: a variety of rodent → 0
Candidate hypernym: villeinage: the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf → 0
Candidate hypernym: cation: a positively charged ion → 0
Candidate hypernym: prancer: a mettlesome or fiery horse → 0
Candidate hypernym: teaser: a worker who teases wool → 0
Candidate hypernym: bathymetry: measuring the depths of the oceans → 0