Verdrängung — meaning in English
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English meaning
- displacement noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
- repression noun The use of force or authority to control or suppress people, especially their rights or freedoms.
- suppression noun The act of forcefully putting an end to something.
Senses
Verdrängung is used for these senses in English:
- displacement The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
- repression (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
- suppression (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
displacement — full definition
- noun The forced movement of people from their homes, especially by war, persecution, disaster or development.
- noun In physics, how far and in what direction an object has moved from its starting point, measured as a straight line rather than along the path travelled.
- noun The volume or weight of fluid pushed aside by an object floating or immersed in it, used to state the size of a ship or the capacity of an engine.
- noun In psychology, the redirecting of a feeling from the person or thing that caused it onto a safer target.
repression — full definition
- noun The use of force or authority to control or suppress people, especially their rights or freedoms.
- noun In psychology, the unconscious pushing away of painful or unwanted thoughts and feelings.