displacements

noun

act of removing from office or employment

to move something from its natural environment

(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one

(chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound

the act of uniform movement

an event in which something is displaced without rotation

act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics

Roots

disdis- · Latin · apart, away platea-plac · Greek · broad place

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Where does displacements come from?

The word displacements breaks down into 2 roots of Latin and Greek origin: dis-, from Latin dis (“apart, away”); and -plac, from Greek platea (“broad place”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.