FREUDIAN SLIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Freudian slip mean? 

• FREUDIAN SLIP (noun)
  The noun FREUDIAN SLIP has 1 sense:

1. a slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals

  Familiarity information: FREUDIAN SLIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREUDIAN SLIP (noun)

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Meaning:

A slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Freudian slip" is a kind of...):

miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up (a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.)