reaction formation (Noun) — (psychiatry) a defence mechanism in which a person unconsciously develops attitudes and behaviour that are the opposite of unacceptable repressed desires and impulses and serve to conceal them. ex. "his strict morality is just a reaction formation to hide his sexual drive"
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