displacement, n.
1 a the act or an instance of displacing; the process of being displaced. b an instance of this.
2 Physics the amount of a fluid displaced by a solid floating or immersed in it (a ship with a displacement of 11,000 tons).
3 Psychol. a the substitution of one idea or impulse for another. b the unconscious transfer of strong unacceptable emotions from one object to another.
4 the amount by which a thing is shifted from its place.

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THESAURUS

displacement

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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ROGET THESAURUS

displacement

Change

N change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution, diversion, break, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmutation, deoxidization, transubstantiation, mutagenesis transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis, avatar, alterative, conversion, revolution &c (sudden or radical change), inversion, displacement, transference, changeableness, tergiversation, changed, newfangled, changeable, transitional, modifiable, alterative, mutatis mutandis, Int, quantum mutatus!, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, still ending and beginning still, vox audita perit littera scripta manet.

Displacement

N displacement, elocation, transposition, ejectment, exile, removal, misplacement, dislocation, fish out of water, displaced, unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished, unsettled, houseless, homeless, out of place, out of a situation, in the wrong place, misplaced, out of its element.

Transference

N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

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