displacement.

1. The movement of people or things away from their usual place or position.

2. The volume of fluid pushed aside by an immersed object.

3. The redirection of feelings from their original source toward another target.

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Words that belong together

• population displacement
• physical displacement

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The flood caused extensive population displacement.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, description. Commonness: moderately common.