Transference

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of transferring.
  • n. The fact of being transferred.
  • n. In psychoanalysis, the process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person, such as a parent or sibling, are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially to the analyst.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred.
  • n. The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of transferring; the act of conveying from one place, person, or thing to another; the passage or conveyance of anything from one place or person to another; transfer.
  • n. In Scots law, that step by which a depending action is transferred from a person deceased to his representatives; revival and continuance.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst
  • n. transferring ownership
  • n. the act of transfering something from one form to another
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change of state   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    conveyance    passage    transfer   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    coinsurance    concurrence    deterrence    occurrence    recurrence   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disintegration    extinction    assimilation    manifestation    transmutation   
     
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