Associations to the word «Repression»
Noun
- Imperialism
- Rna
- Imprisonment
- Nikita
- Famine
- Nationalism
- Peasantry
- Protester
- Ussr
- Franco
- Revolutionary
- Albanian
- Terror
- Nazis
- Vigilance
- Propaganda
- Coup
- Openness
- Cleavage
- Alienation
- Elite
- Instinct
- Reich
- Corruption
- Disappearance
- Terrorism
- Cossack
- Islamist
- Condemnation
- Stripping
- Taboo
- Demonstration
- Displacement
- Hussein
- Nationalist
- Polymerase
- Bourgeois
- Massacre
- Psychiatry
- Biosynthesis
- Ideology
- Execution
- Assassination
- Racism
- Heretic
- Arrest
- Violation
- Exile
- Discrimination
- Killing
- Differentiation
- Upheaval
- Socialism
- Belarusian
- Pretext
- Opposition
- Resistance
- Kb
- Apparatus
- Opponent
- Hypocrisy
- Peasant
- Marxism
- Mechanism
- Dna
- Eros
- Catalonia
- Guatemala
- Tsar
- Atrocity
- Fulfillment
- Surveillance
- Ego
- Injustice
- Detention
- Puritan
Adjective
Wiktionary
REPRESSION, noun. The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
REPRESSION, noun. The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
Dictionary definition
REPRESSION, noun. A state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects".
REPRESSION, noun. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious.
REPRESSION, noun. The act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence".
Wise words
Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your
words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they
become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your
character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.