Projection
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
Framework senses
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- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
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- the act of projecting out from something
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- any structure that branches out from a central support
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- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
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- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
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- a planned undertaking
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- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
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- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
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- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
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- any solid convex shape that juts out from something