defense mechanism (n.)
- alienation
- autism
- avoidance
- block
- blocking
- circumvention
- compensation
- conversion
- defence
- defense
- displacement
- dissociation
- dodge
- duck
- elusion
- elusiveness
- equivocation
- escape
- escapism
- evasion
- evasiveness
- fantasy
- flight
- forbearance
- forestalling
- guard
- isolation
- negativism
- neutrality
- nonintervention
- overcompensation
- prevention
- projection
- protection
- rationalization
- repression
- resistance
- self-defense
- self-preservation
- self-protection
- shunning
- shy
- sidestep
- slip
- sublimation
- substitution
- suppression
- symbolization
- ward
- withdrawal
- zigzag
