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(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict
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| intellectual |
appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature" of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind; "intellectual problems"; "the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man" cerebral: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" a person who uses the mind creatively
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| intellectualization |
A mental mechanism in which the person engages in excessive abstract thinking to avoid confrontation with conflicts or disturbing feelings.
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| intellectual |
involving the faculty of knowing, perceiving, reasoning, reflecting.
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| intellectual a. |
true a.
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