suppression
nounEtymology
From Latin suppressiō.
- borrowed from suppressiō
Definitions
The act or instance of suppressing.
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
The state of being suppressed.
A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or…
A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
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The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted…
The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.
A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of…
A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
The neighborhood
- neighborsuppress
- neighborrepression
Derived
angiosuppression, cardiosuppression, contrasuppression, cosuppression, fibrosuppression, immunosuppression, inflammosuppression, lymphosuppression, myelosuppression, neurosuppression, nonsuppression, oncosuppression, oversuppression, postsuppressional, presuppression, radiosuppression, resuppression, supersuppression, thrombosuppression, suppressionism, suppressionist, hood suppression system, phenotypic suppression, space suppression, suppression order, voter suppression
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for suppression. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA