transference
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
transference
n 1: (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
2: transferring ownership [syn: {transfer}, {transference}]
3: the act of transfering something from one form to another;
"the transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed
much of the background noise" [syn: {transfer},
{transference}]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
TRANSFERENCE, Scotch law. The name of an action by which a suit, which was
pending at the time the parties died, is transferred from the deceased to
his representatives, in the same condition in which it stood formerly. If it
be the pursuer who is dead, the action is called a transference active; if
the defender, it is a transference passive. Ersk. Prin. B. 4, t. 1, n. 32.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "transference":
abalienation, alienation, amortization, amortizement, announcement,
assignation, assignment, association, association by contiguity,
association of ideas, bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal,
cession, clang association, conferment, conferral, consignation,
consignment, controlled association, conveyance, conveyancing,
deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise, disclosure, disposal,
disposition, enfeoffment, exchange, free association, giving,
identification, impartation, imparting, impartment,
lease and release, mental linking, negative transference,
notification, positive transference, publication, sale, settlement,
settling, sharing, stream of consciousness, surrender, synesthesia,
telling, trading, transfer, transmission, transmittal, vesting
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