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Protective

Someone can/is be protective of you when they care about you and the way you feel. They don't want you to get hurt, and want to protect your feelings. A protective person is always there talk to, and to hear you out when you have a problem. They are the best kind of friend because you can always trust them. They always have your back. Try not to ever lose a friend if they are protective of you because that kind of friend is hard to ever find again. Having someone be protective over you is the best feeling in one of the best feelings in the world.
Boy- Hey! How are you feeling today? better than yesterday?

Girl- Yeah. I am feeling better. Thanks for caring and being protective of me. It means a lot to me.

(they hug)
by julialoveyaxo April 14, 2009
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projection

11. Psychology. a. the tendency to ascribe to another person feelings, thoughts, or attitudes present in oneself, or to regard external reality as embodying such feelings, thoughts, etc., in some way.
b. Psychoanalysis. such an ascription relieving the ego of a sense of guilt or other intolerable feeling.
Some believe that every human interpretation of social reality is merely a projection of one's own internal state. A process of becoming self-realized is taking responsibility for one's own projection.
by Daemone Darker March 3, 2009
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projecting

when you point out actions in someone else, that really are the things that YOU do
J loves to blame others for lying, or being an "enigman" of sorts, when it is really all of his own insecurities and faults that he is projecting
by Meadow Soprano September 23, 2005
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projectionism

Projectionism projecting is when someone puts their own issues on someone else, i.e. it is when a person attributes his/her own thoughts/feelings/behaviors to/on to another person, and a/or a group of ppl, and an/or an organization.

This is an ad hominem attack on a persons character; it is a tactic used in, typically, internet argument conversations by trolls who have no real criticisms to make. Used most often at a certain point in the conversation when they know that they have lost the argument, & perhaps they started without a real argument in the first place, the troll uses projectionism to defend themselves.
1. If I have a brother who is an addict and has borrowed a lot of money from me without paying me back and I have a friend who says her brother just asked her to borrow $20; I might respond saying, "Don't do it. He's not trustworthy and you can just kiss that money goodbye!" I might not know a thing about her or her brother but I'm PROJECTING my own experience onto the situation. It's my stuff I'm talking about instead of the real issue at hand.

2. Projectionism is particularly common among racists & other bigots. They will commonly make bigoted comments & then deny that they are bigots; and further defend themselves by accusing the person that normally initially accuses them first of being the very thing that they more often than not end up accusing the other person of being.

Tho, it is possible, & certainly not unheard of, for a troll to use projectionism against someone before that someone has a chance to say ...ANYTHING... to the troll, as trolls are known to attack anyone unprovoked. Regardless of the details of how the troll and their victim(s) begin the conversation, in using this particular troll-tactic, a troll never backs up their comments or accusations with facts, only unfounded criticisms, and often outright lies; which is at the heart of an ad hominem personal attack.
by MorpheusOne June 1, 2009
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Reverse projection

Rather than aggressively dissociating themselves from that which they are insecure, one who engages in reverse projection will, instead, playfully/pseudo-ironically engage with their insecurities so as to make themselves seem secure.
John didn't want anyone to know he was gay; John new that if he took extreme measures such as avoiding all physical contact with other men (e.g. handshakes, hugs, etc.), he would actually be projecting his insecurity and, in turn, would make it obvious that he was gay, so, instead, he chose to engage in reverse projection, i.e. do playful/pseudo-ironic things such as kissing his male friends or slapping their asses to make it seem as though he was comfortable with his sexuality.
by Living Ass April 12, 2021
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projectiley

A way of describing projectiles or how something was projected

- Created by Kallmekris :)
"Ive never thrown up so projectiley in my life" -Kris
by sociu February 23, 2022
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ProjectPlaylist

A website where you can browse different music and add them to your playlist. You can post this playlist anywhere; MySpace, Gaia, Facebook, ect. Anyone can listen to the music you put on your playlist. You can have up to 100 songs, custom-make the playlist design, and have a shuffle option. ProjectPlaylist is free and great if you hate having to change your one pathetic song on MySpace over and over again because you like so much music.
I changed my MySpace song 68 times in three hours today, so I think I'm going to just put all of them on a playlist at ProjectPlaylist.
by Nicxolelovesyou February 17, 2008
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