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repression

noun
/ɹəˈpɹɛʃən/

Etymology

From repress + -ion.

  1. derived from repressus
  2. formed as repression — “repress + -ion”

Definitions

  1. The act of repressing

    The act of repressing; state of being repressed.

    • History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited.

  2. The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories,…

    The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.

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Derived

antirepression, autorepression, corepression, crossrepression, derepression, financial repression, hyperrepression, nonrepression, overrepression, repressionary, repressionism, repressionist, transnational repression, transrepression

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at repression. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at repression. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at repression

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA