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escape mechanism

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escape mechanism
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(Psychoanalysis) Psychol any emotional or mental mechanism that enables a person to avoid acknowledging unpleasant or threatening realities See also escapism
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Noun1.escape mechanism - a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities
dodging, escape, evasion - nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"


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