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
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.