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reaction formation

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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