Oppression vs. Suppression
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Difference Between Oppression and Suppression
Oppressionnoun
The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
Suppressionnoun
The act or instance of suppressing.
Oppressionnoun
The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
The oppression of the poor by the aristocracy was one cause of the French Revolution.Suppressionnoun
The state of being suppressed.
Oppressionnoun
A feeling of being oppressed.
Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.Suppressionnoun
A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
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Oppressionnoun
the act of subjugating by cruelty;
the tyrant's oppression of the peopleSuppressionnoun
(botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant
Oppressionnoun
the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
after years of oppression they finally revoltedSuppressionnoun
the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation;
a suppression of the newspaperOppressionnoun
a feeling of being oppressed
Suppressionnoun
forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority;
the suppression of heresythe quelling of the rebellionthe stifling of all dissentADVERTISEMENT
Suppressionnoun
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
