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reaction formation (medicine)


reaction formation


In psychoanalysis, a postulated defense mechanism in which attitudes and behaviours that are adopted are the opposites of that which the individual would ordinarily be expected to express and actually feel at an unconscious level.


turpid (iou)



turpid adjective. literary. rare. E17.
[Irreg. from Latin turpis + -ID1, after torpid.]
Base, worthless; foul, filthy.
turpidly adverb M19.