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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (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;
- Example: "his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

reaction formation
    n 1: (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"