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repression
[ ri-presh-uhn ]
noun
- the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- Psychology, Psychoanalysis. the rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses:
Freud's approach to interpreting early memories emphasizes what is forgotten through the mechanism of repression.
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- non·re·pres·sion noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of repression1
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Example Sentences
Hand to God Sexual repression has been around for centuries, courtesy of all our favorite religions.
Depressing is really what Cuba has become—repression, bureaucracy, and crippling poverty.
One road leads to freedom, sharing, and equality; the other to endless spying, a hierarchical structure, and repression.
Dovlatov hated Soviet oppression and battled repression subtly, by not condescending to notice it, and keeping things light.
If the U.S. does nothing, the Arab world will continue its slide into sectarian bigotry, political repression, and madness.
Not that those stolid agriculturists required much repression.
Cavour's double play and the cruel repression of the Genoese plot left him bitterer than ever against the monarchy and its men.
As we follow the sessions of the Assembly we find acts for the repression of litigation renewed three times in five years.
But the war brought worse than an arrest of progress; it brought repression of freedom and a tremendous load of debt.
Calavius was furious and paused, as if to give orders for harsher repression.
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