Term: reaction formation: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behavior that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them
Candidate hypernym: cognition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning → 1
Candidate hypernym: water-cooled reactor: nuclear reactor using water as a coolant → 0
Candidate hypernym: machine: an efficient person → 0
Candidate hypernym: psocoptera: an order of insects: includes booklice and bark-lice → 0
Candidate hypernym: omega-6 fatty acid: a polyunsaturated fatty acid whose carbon chain has its first double valence bond six carbons from the beginning → 0
Candidate hypernym: sequestration: seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized → 0
Candidate hypernym: scorekeeper: an official who records the score during the progress of a game → 0
Candidate hypernym: calandrinia: large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: undernourishment: not having enough food to develop or function normally → 0
Candidate hypernym: epithet: descriptive word or phrase → 0
Candidate hypernym: gymkhana: a meet at which riders and horses display a range of skills and aptitudes → 0