repression

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a state of forcible subjugation

   the long repression of Christian sects

2. 2
   noun

   The act of repressing; state of being repressed.

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

3. 3
   noun

   the act of repressing

4. 4
   noun

   (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

5. 5
   noun

   The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.

Etymology

From repress + -ion.