Related Words:
- substitution
collapse - the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help"
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" related words >
- agent,
- alienation,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- amends,
- analogy,
- atonement,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- backup,
- balancing,
- blame-shifting,
- change,
- changeling,
- changing,
- commutation,
- comparison,
- compensation,
- copy,
- counteraction,
- counterbalancing,
- counterfeit,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- deputy,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
- dissociation,
- double,
- dummy,
- emotional insulation,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- exchange,
- expiation,
- fake,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- fill-in,
- flight,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- indemnification,
- indemnity,
- interchange,
- interchanging,
- isolation,
- lex talionis,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- negativism,
- next best thing,
- offsetting,
- overcompensation,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- projection,
- proxy,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- recompense,
- rectification,
- redress,
- relief,
- reparation,
- repayment,
- replacement,
- replacing,
- representative,
- reserves,
- resistance,
- restitution,
- retaliation,
- revenge,
- ringer,
- satisfaction,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- sublimation,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- supplanting,
- surrogate,
- swap,
- swapping,
- switch,
- switching,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
- dissociation
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- the act of removing from association
- (chemistry) the temporary or reversible process in which a molecule or ion is broken down into smaller molecules or ions
- a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently 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,
- bombardment,
- breeding,
- bullet,
- catalysis,
- catalyst,
- chain reaction,
- cleavage,
- compensation,
- decay,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- depersonalization,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dialysis,
- disassociation,
- disconnection,
- discreteness,
- disintegration series,
- disjunction,
- disjuncture,
- displacement,
- dissociation of personality,
- double personality,
- dual personality,
- emotional dissociation,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- exchange reaction,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- fission,
- fission reaction,
- flight,
- gamma decay,
- hydrolysis,
- hydrolyst,
- immateriality,
- impertinence,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- inconnection,
- inconsequence,
- independence,
- ionization,
- irrelation,
- irrelevance,
- isolation,
- mental dissociation,
- multiple personality,
- negativism,
- neutron reaction,
- nonreversible reaction,
- nuclear fission,
- nucleization,
- overcompensation,
- paranoia,
- paranoid personality,
- personality disorganization,
- photodisintegration,
- photolysis,
- projection,
- proton gun,
- proton reaction,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- reversible reaction,
- schizoid personality,
- schizoidism,
- schizophrenia,
- schizothymia,
- separateness,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- split personality,
- splitting,
- splitting the atom,
- stimulation,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- target,
- thermolysis,
- thermonuclear reaction,
- unconnectedness,
- unrelatedness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
- abnegation,
- alienation,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- blame-shifting,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- challenge,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- combative reaction,
- compensation,
- complaint,
- constriction,
- counteraction,
- cramp,
- cynicism,
- decompensation,
- defeatism,
- defense mechanism,
- defiance,
- delay,
- demur,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- detainment,
- detention,
- dismalness,
- displacement,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissociation,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- fixation,
- flight,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- gloominess,
- gloomy outlook,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- isolation,
- let,
- malism,
- nay,
- naysaying,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative attitude,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihilism,
- nix,
- no,
- noncooperation,
- nuisance value,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- overcompensation,
- passive resistance,
- pessimism,
- projection,
- protest,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- refractoriness,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repression,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retreatism,
- revolt,
- setback,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- squeeze,
- stand,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suppression,
- uncheerfulness,
- uncooperativeness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- withstanding
- idealism
collapse
- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality related words >
- Berkeleianism,
- Geistesgeschichte,
- Hegelian idea,
- Hegelianism,
- Kantian idea,
- Kantianism,
- Neoplatonism,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- Platonism,
- absolute idealism,
- animatism,
- animism,
- archetype,
- aspiration,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- bigheartedness,
- bigness,
- chivalrousness,
- chivalry,
- complex idea,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dream,
- dreamery,
- elevation,
- errantry,
- eternal object,
- eternal universal,
- exaltation,
- exemplar,
- flight of fancy,
- form,
- formal cause,
- generosity,
- generousness,
- great heart,
- greatheartedness,
- greatness,
- greatness of heart,
- heroism,
- high goal,
- high-mindedness,
- highest category,
- history of ideas,
- hylozoism,
- ideal,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- ideals,
- ideate,
- ideatum,
- idee-force,
- imaginative exercise,
- immaterialism,
- impracticality,
- innate idea,
- knight-errantry,
- knightliness,
- largeheartedness,
- liberality,
- liberalness,
- loftiness,
- magnanimity,
- magnanimousness,
- materialism,
- metaphysical idealism,
- model,
- monistic idealism,
- nobility,
- noble-mindedness,
- nobleness,
- noosphere,
- noumenon,
- openhandedness,
- panpsychism,
- pattern,
- percept,
- personalism,
- play of fancy,
- princeliness,
- prototype,
- psychism,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- reaching high,
- regulative first principle,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- simple idea,
- solipsism,
- spiritualism,
- subjectivism,
- sublimity,
- subsistent form,
- the Absolute,
- the Absolute Idea,
- the Self-determined,
- the realized ideal,
- transcendent idea,
- transcendent nonempirical concept,
- transcendent universal,
- transcendental,
- universal,
- universal concept,
- universal essence,
- unpracticalness,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- upward looking,
- utopianism,
- visionariness,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking
- wishful thinking
collapse
- the illusion that what you wish for is actually true related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blame-shifting,
- blind faith,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conning,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- daydream,
- daydreaming,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
- disposition to believe,
- dissociation,
- dotage,
- dreamery,
- dupery,
- ease of belief,
- emotional insulation,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fondness,
- fooling,
- gross credulity,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- infatuation,
- isolation,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nostalgia,
- outwitting,
- overcompensation,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overreaching,
- overtrustfulness,
- phantasm,
- play of fancy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- putting on,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rash conviction,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unpracticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- utopianism,
- victimization,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- will to believe,
- willful misconception,
- willingness to believe,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful belief,
- wishfulness,
- wistful eye,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- yearnfulness
- deception
collapse
- the act of deceiving related words >
- acting,
- affectation,
- airy nothing,
- appearance,
- artifice,
- attitudinizing,
- autism,
- befooling,
- bluff,
- bluffing,
- bubble,
- burial,
- burying,
- casuistry,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- chicane,
- chicanery,
- chimera,
- clouding,
- color,
- coloring,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- cunning,
- darkening,
- daydream,
- deceit,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dirt,
- disguise,
- dishonesty,
- dissemblance,
- dissembling,
- dissimulation,
- double-dealing,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- dupery,
- duping,
- duplicity,
- equivocation,
- facade,
- face,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fakery,
- faking,
- false air,
- false belief,
- false front,
- false show,
- falsity,
- feigning,
- feint,
- flam,
- four-flushing,
- fraud,
- front,
- gilt,
- gloss,
- guile,
- gulling,
- gyp,
- hallucination,
- hanky-panky,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hoax,
- hoodwinking,
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- hypocrisy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- impose,
- imposture,
- indirection,
- interment,
- intrigue,
- invisibility,
- knavery,
- manipulation,
- masking,
- masquerade,
- meretriciousness,
- mirage,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mystification,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- occultation,
- ostentation,
- outward show,
- overreaching,
- pipe dream,
- playacting,
- pose,
- posing,
- posture,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- putting away,
- representation,
- ride,
- rip-off,
- ruse,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- seeming,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- sell,
- semblance,
- sham,
- sharp practice,
- show,
- simulacrum,
- simulation,
- snow job,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- speciousness,
- spoof,
- spuriousness,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- treachery,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trip,
- uncommunicativeness,
- vapor,
- varnish,
- wile,
- window dressing,
- wrong impression
- displacement
collapse
- act of removing from office or employment
- to move something from its natural environment
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
- (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound related words >
- Doppler effect,
- agency,
- alienation,
- amotion,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avatar,
- avoidance mechanism,
- banishment,
- blame-shifting,
- cashiering,
- catabolism,
- catalysis,
- change,
- commutation,
- compensation,
- consubstantiation,
- decompensation,
- deconsecration,
- defense mechanism,
- defrocking,
- delegation,
- delocalization,
- deportation,
- deposal,
- deposition,
- deprivation,
- deputation,
- deputyship,
- deracination,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- dethronement,
- disarrangement,
- disarticulation,
- disbarment,
- disbarring,
- discontinuity,
- discrownment,
- disenthronement,
- disjointing,
- dislocation,
- dismissal,
- dissociation,
- draft,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- exchange,
- excommunication,
- expulsion,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- firing,
- flight,
- forced resignation,
- forcible shift,
- heterotopia,
- impeachment,
- incoherence,
- isolation,
- kicking upstairs,
- liquidation,
- luxation,
- metabolism,
- metagenesis,
- metamorphism,
- metamorphosis,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- movement,
- moving,
- mutant,
- mutated form,
- mutation,
- negativism,
- ostracism,
- ousting,
- overcompensation,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- pensioning off,
- permutation,
- power of attorney,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- purge,
- quid pro quo,
- rationalization,
- red shift,
- reincarnation,
- relegation,
- relocation,
- remotion,
- removal,
- removement,
- replacement,
- representation,
- resistance,
- retirement,
- ripping out,
- shift,
- sinkage,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- sport,
- sublimation,
- submergence,
- submersion,
- subrogation,
- substitution,
- superannuation,
- supersedence,
- superseding,
- supersedure,
- supersession,
- supplantation,
- supplanting,
- supplantment,
- suspension,
- switch,
- tit for tat,
- transanimation,
- transfiguration,
- transfigurement,
- transformation,
- transformism,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmogrification,
- transmutation,
- transposition,
- transubstantiation,
- unchurching,
- unfrocking,
- unhinging,
- unjointing,
- unseating,
- uprooting,
- vicariousness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal
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