Repression

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repression \Re*pres"sion\ (r?-pr?sh"?n), n. [Cf. F.
     r['e]pression.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as,
        the repression of evil and evil doers.
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     2. That which represses; check; restraint.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repression
       n 1: a state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of
            Christian sects"
       2: (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects
          you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by
          preventing them from becoming conscious
       3: the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal
          was the repression of insolence"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  177 Moby Thesaurus words for "repression":
     Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, aloofness,
     arrest, arrestation, arrestment, backwardness, bamboo curtain, ban,
     barrier of secrecy, bashfulness, blackout, blankness, block,
     blockage, blocking, bottling up, censorship, check, chilliness,
     choking, clogging, closing up, closure, coldness, constraint,
     constriction, contraband, control, conversion, coolness,
     corking up, crackdown, cramp, crushing, curb, curtain,
     defense mechanism, delay, denial, detachment, detainment,
     detention, deterring, disallowance, discreetness, discretion,
     distance, embargo, exclusion, expressionlessness, extinction,
     extinguishment, fixation, foot-dragging, forbiddance,
     forbidden fruit, forbidding, frigidity, frostiness, frustrating,
     frustration, guardedness, hampering, hindering, hindrance,
     holdback, holding, holding in, holdup, hush-up, iciness,
     impassiveness, impassivity, impediment, impersonality,
     inaccessibility, index, index expurgatorius,
     index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict,
     interdiction, interdictum, interference, interruption,
     introversion, iron curtain, ironbound security, keeping, law, let,
     limitation, locking in, maintenance, mental block, modesty,
     negativism, no-no, nuisance value, oath of secrecy, obstruction,
     obstructionism, occlusion, official secrecy, opposition, pall,
     preclusion, prehension, preservation, prevention, prohibition,
     prohibitory injunction, proscription, psychological block,
     putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, refusal, rejection,
     remoteness, reserve, reservedness, resistance, restraint,
     restriction, restrictive covenants, retainment, retardation,
     retardment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, reticence,
     reticency, retirement, ruling out, seal of secrecy, security,
     setback, smashing, smothering, squashing, squeeze, squelching,
     standoffishness, statute, stifling, stranglehold, strangling,
     stricture, subdual, subduedness, subjugation, sublimation,
     suffocating, sumptuary laws, suppression, symbolization, taboo,
     tenacity, throttling, unaffability, unapproachability,
     uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, veil,
     veil of secrecy, withdrawal, withdrawnness, wraps, zoning,
     zoning laws