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reaction formation

noun

Psychoanalysis an unconscious reaction in which a feeling or trait finds expression as the exact opposite of a repressed feeling or impulse

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  1. ‹ reaction engine
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  7. ‹ reach-me-down
  8. ‹ reach
  9. ‹ re-up
  10. ‹ re-tread
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