Definitions For Displacement

noun

  • Act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics
  • Act of removing from office or employment
  • To move something from its natural environment
  • The act of uniform movement
  • An event in which something is displaced without rotation
  • (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

Is Displacements a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
20
Words with Friends
25

The word Displacement is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 25 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Displacement in a Sentence

  • The war has caused the displacement of thousands of people.
  • displacements in the Earth's crust
  • Soil displacement caused by farming

Synonyms for Displacement

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