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Meaning of "character armour" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHARACTER ARMOUR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHARACTER ARMOUR

noun
adjective
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Character armour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHARACTER ARMOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of character armour in the English dictionary

The definition of character armour in the dictionary is the defence an individual exhibits to others and to himself or herself to disguise his or her underlying weaknesses: a term coined by William Reich.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHARACTER ARMOUR

character
character actor
character actress
character assassination
character code
character comedy
character development
character part
character recognition
character reference
character set
character sketch
character space
character string
character trait
character type
character witness
character-building
characterful
characteries

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHARACTER ARMOUR

affaire d´amour
affaires d´amour
amour
armour
black humour
body armour
brain tumour
chink in one´s armour
clamour
coat armour
enamour
glamour
humour
out of humour
paramour
plate armour
rumour
sense of humour
Seymour
tumour

Synonyms and antonyms of character armour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «character armour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHARACTER ARMOUR

Find out the translation of character armour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of character armour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «character armour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

性格盔甲
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

coraza caracterial
570 millions of speakers

English

character armour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चरित्र कवच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطابع الدروع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

характер броня
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

armadura de caráter
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অক্ষর বর্ম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cuirasse caractérielle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perisai watak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Charakterpanzer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

文字の鎧
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

문자 갑옷
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Karakter waja
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

áo giáp nhân vật
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாத்திரம் கவசம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर्ण चिलखत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Karakter zırhı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

carattere armatura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

charakter pancerz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

характер броня
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

armura caracter
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χαρακτήρα πανοπλία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

karakter wapens
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

karaktär rustning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

karakter rustning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of character armour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHARACTER ARMOUR»

The term «character armour» is barely ever used and occupies the 207.677 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHARACTER ARMOUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about character armour

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHARACTER ARMOUR»

Discover the use of character armour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to character armour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Omnifray RPG Basic Handbook
If for any reason the referee rules that in particular circumstances an attack simply cannot bypass a character's armour then normally the combatant will simply receive the armour's maximum armour protection value (against that kind of attack) ...
Matt West, 2009
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A Body of Vision: Representations of the Body in Recent Film ...
Representations of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry R. Bruce Elder. side and from one's unconscious. Character armour serves an economic function, Reich concluded, for it absorbs anxiety arising from sexual stasis and sexual frustration.
R. Bruce Elder, 1998
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Therapeutic Voicework: Principles and Practice for the Use ...
The character armour develops 'as the chronic result of the conflict between instinctual demands and the frustrating outer world' and 'the continuing actual conflicts between instinct and outer world give it its strength and continued reason for ...
Paul Newham, 1998
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The Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique
... isolate the character trait so that it becomes ego-dystonic, and for this it is necessary to link it in all possible ways with the patient's material and with his infantile history. The aggregate of character traits forms, for Reich, the character armour ...
R. Horacio Etchegoyen, 2005
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Touching the Relational Edge: Body Psychotherapy
Muscular armour In 1927, Reich presented his first theory of character armour at the tenth congress of the International Psychoanalytical Association in Innsbruck, Austria. Reich demonstrated how character analysis could diagnose the ...
Asaf Rolef Ben-Shahar, 2014
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Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World: ...
Wilhelm Reich has produced a sophisticated theory of psychological alienation, arguing that alienation becomes internalised as neurotic character- armour. As a result, the 'slave mentality' has become 'deeply rooted in the body itself' and ...
Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson, 2009
7
Ethics and Psychiatry: Toward Professional Definition
(See also Freud, 1913.10) An important contribution of Freud in 1915 was the introduction of the notion of character as resistance, a notion that Reich elaborated in his discussion of "character armour."11 Reich assumed that at any time when, ...
Allen R. Dyer, 1988
8
Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy: A Radical Philosophy Reader
These muscular rigidities, the organism's way of dealing with the unpleasant anxiety resulting from the blocking of sexual energy, are to be understood as the bodily constituents of the character armour that Reich had identified in his analysis ...
Peter Osborne, Sean Sayers, 2013
9
Science and ESP
His somewhat eccentric follower, Reich, invented the illuminating phrase ' character armour' to describe the muscular tensions, especially in hips and back, which he found to exist wherever sexuality was repressed; and he showed how this ...
J R Smythies, 2013
10
We the Cosmopolitans: Moral and Existential Conditions of ...
The character armour has a few atypical openings, however, which, in libidinous situations, grow wider or increase in number. (In a- libidinous and anti-libidinous situations, the armour grows thicker and denser.) The purpose of the K2 ...
Lisette Josephides, Alexandra Hall, 2014

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHARACTER ARMOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term character armour is used in the context of the following news items.
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Audacious abduction of German general detailed in new books
The players in this drama are often self-conscious, as if they need to burnish their character armour to survive in war, to maintain their own safe ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»
2
White Blindness and Smiley Faces
The chatty world of the obviously unhappy, the defensive character armour of a vast working poor. And it extends of course to the idea of ... «Truth-Out, Jun 14»
3
The best OMG moments so far in Game of Thrones
It's called "main character armour", and refusing to equip his characters with it is possibly what George R. R. Martin is best known, loved, and ... «Fair Lady, Jan 14»
4
Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold
... the denouement of residual poignancy and power despite far closer attention to the dual formation of character armour in renegade spirits. «libcom.org, Feb 12»
5
The Real Broken Society: the Cinema of Bourgeois Misery
So, professional and personal entanglement with prostitute Joyce punctures his character armour, unleashing suppressed hostility and ... «libcom.org, Dec 10»
6
The Killer Inside Me, directed by Michael Winterbottom
Professional then personal entanglement with prostitute Joyce (Jessica Alba) punctures his character armour to unleash suppressed hostility ... «libcom.org, Sep 10»
7
Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt
Respecting Wendy's fragile, fallible character armour, the filmmakers invite orthodox blaming of those at the sharp end for their own ... «libcom.org, Aug 09»
8
An American Judgment in London: The Star Wars Case
The case arose from the manufacture by Andrew Ainsworth of new Star Wars character armour (mainly, but not exclusively, stormtrooper ... «International Law Office, Aug 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Character armour [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/character-armour>. May 2024 ».
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