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