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
