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• REACTION FORMATION (noun) The noun REACTION FORMATION has 1 sense: 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 Familiarity information: REACTION FORMATION used as a noun is very rare.
