Term: regression: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state
Candidate hypernym: process: a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states → 1
Candidate hypernym: footcandle: a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle → 0
Candidate hypernym: ambiance: the atmosphere of an environment → 0
Candidate hypernym: inaptness: inappropriateness → 0
Candidate hypernym: cross: a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry → 0
Candidate hypernym: isoagglutination: agglutination of an agglutinogen of one individual by a serum from another individual of the same species → 0
Candidate hypernym: eternity: a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife → 0
Candidate hypernym: muckraking: the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus pythium: destructive root-parasitic fungi → 0
Candidate hypernym: album: a book of blank pages with pockets or envelopes; for organizing photographs or stamp collections etc → 0
Candidate hypernym: refractive index: the ratio of the velocity of light in a vacuum to that in a medium → 0