- psychotaxis
- psy·cho·taxis
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psychotaxis
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psychotaxis — n. involuntary alteration of mental outlook for the satisfaction of the personality … Dictionary of difficult words
psychotaxis — ˌsīkō+ noun Etymology: New Latin, from psych + taxis : an involuntary adjustment of one s modes of thought and action for keeping the agreeable and avoiding the disagreeable as a mechanism of ego defense … Useful english dictionary
Elmer R. Gates — (1859 1923), the son of Jacob and Phoebe Goetz, American scientist and inventor; born near Dayton, Ohio, died in Washington, D.C.Gates’s inventions include the foam fire extinguisher, an improved electric iron, an aseptic brewing and fermenting… … Wikipedia
alienation — Synonyms and related words: abalienation, aberration, abnormality, abstraction, abulia, agreement to disagree, aloneness, aloofness, amortization, amortizement, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, apostasy, assignation, assignment … Moby Thesaurus
autism — Synonyms and related words: acquisitiveness, airy nothing, alienation, anesthesia, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, bashfulness, blame shifting, bubble, careerism, catatonia, chill, chilliness, chimera, cold blood, cold heart,… … Moby Thesaurus
compensation — Synonyms and related words: alienation, amends, atonement, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, base pay, blame shifting, blood money, comeuppance, composition, compromise, consideration, correction, damages, decompensation, defense… … Moby Thesaurus
defense mechanism — Synonyms and related words: alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance, avoidance mechanism, avoidance reaction, avoiding reaction, blame shifting, block, blocking, circumvention, compensation, conversion, decompensation, defence, defense,… … Moby Thesaurus
dereism — Synonyms and related words: airy nothing, alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame shifting, bubble, chimera, compensation, daydream, deception, decompensation, defense mechanism, deluded belief, delusion, dereistic… … Moby Thesaurus
displacement — Synonyms and related words: Doppler effect, agency, alienation, amotion, autism, autistic thinking, avatar, avoidance mechanism, banishment, blame shifting, cashiering, catabolism, catalysis, change, commutation, compensation, consubstantiation,… … Moby Thesaurus
dissociation — Synonyms and related words: alienation, alpha decay, alternating personality, atom chipping, atom smashing, atomic disintegration, atomic reaction, atomization, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, beta decay, blame shifting,… … Moby Thesaurus
