Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: transference
IPA transcription: [tɹænsf'ɝəns]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: transfer, transference
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: transfer, transference
    Meaning: transferring ownership
  • Synonyms: transference
    Meaning: (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
Usage examples
  • If we keep closely to the definition that dream work denotes the transference of dream thoughts to dream content, we are compelled to say that the dream work is not creative; it develops no fancies of its own, it judges nothing, decides nothing.
  • This is the fourth day of gale; if one reflects on the quantity of transported air (nearly 4,000 miles) one gets a conception of the transference which such a gale effects and must conclude that potentially warm upper currents are pouring into our polar area from more temperate sources.