Defense Reaction

  

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Defense Reaction

Definition: Defense Reaction

Defense Reaction

Noun

1. (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Defense Reaction

Synonyms: defence (n), defence mechanism (n), defence reaction (n), defense (n), defense mechanism (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Defense Reaction

English words defined with "defense reaction": displacementimmune reaction, immune response, immunologic responsereaction formation. (references)

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Anagrams: Defense Reaction

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-e-f-i-n-n-o-r-s-t"

-3 letters: confederates.

-4 letters: centenaries, confederate, confidantes, considerate, constrained, contredanse, defecations, desecration, federations, resentenced.

-5 letters: ancestored, condensate, confidante, confidants, containers, contenders, coresident, crenations, deaconries, decenaries, defecation, defections, deferences, endocrines, federacies, federation, forecasted, fornicated, fornicates, fractioned, fricandoes, indecenter, inferences, intercedes, interfaced, interfaces, internodes, interocean, nectarines, ordinances, reanointed, recondense, redactions, refastened, refections, refinanced, refinances, reinfected, resentence, sanctioned, tendencies, transience.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Defense Reaction


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 66 65 6E 73 65      52 65 61 63 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01100110 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 00100000 01010010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#102 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#32 &#82 &#101 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0066 0065 006E 0073 0065      0052 0065 0061 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3871727180857125271676986758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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