Term: denial: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: bessemer converter: a refractory-lined furnace used to convert pig iron into steel by the Bessemer process
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: yellow clintonia: common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: rice rat: hardy agile rat of grassy marshes of Mexico and the southeastern United States
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: ischigualastia: early reptile found in Argentina
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: symbolism: the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: satin weave: a weave in which the filling and warp threads intersect in such a way as to give a smooth compact surface with no distinguishable twill line
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: arm: a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: book: a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: saki: small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail
Broader: defense mechanism: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Unrelated: pleading: (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding