reaction formation

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• March 2. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  reaction formation — noun — english

  (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; "his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive"