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Oppression vs. Suppression

Oppression and Suppression Definitions

Oppression

The action of oppressing; arbitrary and cruel exercise of power
A system of oppression.

Suppression

The act of suppressing.

Oppression

The state of being oppressed
Caught in the oppression of poverty.

Suppression

The state of being suppressed.

Oppression

A feeling of being weighed down in mind or body
"Every time I entered my house, an oppression settled on me so heavy that I had to stand for minutes at a time in the doorway, gathering what strength I could find" (Erin McGraw). "One has ... to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression" (J.R.R. Tolkien).

Suppression

(Psychiatry) Conscious exclusion of unacceptable desires, thoughts, or memories from the mind.
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Oppression

The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

Suppression

(Botany) The failure of an organ or part to develop.

Oppression

The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
Extreme freedom is followed by extreme oppression, said Plato.

Suppression

(Genetics) The inhibition of gene expression.

Oppression

A feeling of being oppressed.
Our oppression was lifted by the reappearance of the sun.

Suppression

The act or instance of suppressing.
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Oppression

The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.

Suppression

The state of being suppressed.

Oppression

That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

Suppression

(psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.

Oppression

A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.
There gentle SleepFirst found me, and with soft oppression seizedMy drowsed sense.

Suppression

(military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
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Oppression

Ravishment; rape.

Suppression

(of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

Oppression

The act of subjugating by cruelty;
The tyrant's oppression of the people

Suppression

The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.

Oppression

The state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:
After years of oppression they finally revolted

Suppression

Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; - used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.

Oppression

A feeling of being oppressed

Suppression

Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

Suppression

(botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant

Suppression

The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation;
A suppression of the newspaper

Suppression

Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority;
The suppression of heresy
The quelling of the rebellion
The stifling of all dissent

Suppression

(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

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