Suppression

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of suppressing.
  • n. The state of being suppressed.
  • n. Psychiatry Conscious exclusion of unacceptable desires, thoughts, or memories from the mind.
  • n. Botany The failure of an organ or part to develop.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act or instance of suppressing.
  • n. The state of being suppressed.
  • n. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression
  • n. Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion.
  • n. Omission.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of suppressing, crushing, or quelling, or the state of being suppressed, crushed, quelled, or the like: as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult.
  • n. The act of concealing or withholding from utterance, disclosure, revelation, or publication: as, the suppression of truth, of evidence, or of reports.
  • n. The stoppage or obstruction or the morbid retention of discharges: as, the suppression of a diarrhea, of saliva, or of urine.
  • n. In botany, the absence, as in flowers, of parts requisite to theoretical completeness; abortion.
  • n. In psychology, a phenomenon of binocular vision, consisting in the exclusive predominance of a single monocular image and the consequent disappearance of the other.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
  • n. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
  • n. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
  • n. the failure to develop some part or organ
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    restraint    abstinence    ontogeny    development    ontogenesis   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    obstruction    concealment    retention    repression    destruction   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hessian    accession    aggression    compression    concession   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    repression    abolition    extinction    destruction    prevention   
     
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