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1. (n.) repression
the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
2. repression
the suppression from consciousness of distressing or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
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| Definition of 'Repression' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) repression
a state of forcible subjugation
"the long repression of Christian sects"
2. (noun) repression
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
3. (noun) repression
the act of repressing; control by holding down
"his goal was the repression of insolence"
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| Definition of 'Repression' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Repression
the act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers
2. (noun) Repression
that which represses; check; restraint
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| Definition of 'Repression' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Repression
The active mental process of keeping out and ejecting, banishing from consciousness, ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it.
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Sense: to keep (an impulse, a desire to do something etc) under control
He repressed a desire to hit the man.
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 Afrikaans: onderdrukking |
 Arabic: كَبْت، قَمْع |
 Bulgarian: сдържане |
 Brazilian: repressão |
 Czech: potlačení |
 German: die Unterdrückung |
 Danish: undertrykkelse |
 Greek: καταστολή, καταπίεση |
 Spanish: represión |
 Estonian: ohjeldamine, surveavaldus |
 Farsi: خودداری؛ سرکوبی |
 Finnish: sorto |
 French: répression |
 Hebrew: דִיכּוּי |
 Hindi: रोक |
 Croatian: obuzdavanje, zatomljivanj |
 Hungarian: elnyomás |
 Indonesian: penindasan |
 Icelandic: bæling |
 Italian: repressione |
 Japanese: 抑圧 |
 Korean: 억제 |
 Lithuanian: (nu)slopinimas, represija |
 Latvian: represija; apspiešana |
 Malay: pemendaman |
 Dutch: onderdrukking |
 Norwegian: beherskelse, undertrykkin |
 Polish: stłumienie, represje |
 Persian: خودداری؛ سرکوبی |
 Pashto: فشار: مخنيوى |
 Portuguese: repressão |
 Romanian: represiune |
 Russian: подавление; сдерживание |
 Slovak: potlačenie, represia |
 Slovenian: zatrtje |
 Serbian: suzbijanje |
 Swedish: undertryckande, förträngn |
 Thai: ความอดกลั้น |
 Turkish: bastırma |
 Taiwanese: 抑制 |
 Ukrainian: придушення; репресія |
 Urdu: انسداد |
 Vietnamese: sự kiềm chế; sự đàn áp |
 Chinese: 抑制 |
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