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Repression

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of repressing; state of being repressed. countable, uncountable

    "History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited."

  2. 2
    the act of repressing; control by holding down wordnet
  3. 3
    The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious wordnet
  5. 5
    a state of forcible subjugation wordnet

Etymology

From repress + -ion.

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