Displacement Activity Definition
noun
Aimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated.
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Something done needlessly when procrastinating.
At last week's meeting of Infantino 's expanded Fifa Council - the world's best attended displacement activity - there was instead much discussion of the proposal to bulk up football's flagship tournament to 40 or 48 teams.
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Origin of Displacement Activity
first mentions in 1940 by two Dutch researchers Nikolaas Tinbergen and Adriaan Kortlandt
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