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1. n. (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 Source: wordnet

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attitudes behavior conceal defense desires develops impulses mechanism opposite person psychiatry repressed serve them unacceptable unconsciously

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