Associations to the word «Suppression»

Wiktionary

SUPPRESSION, noun. The act or instance of suppressing.
SUPPRESSION, noun. The state of being suppressed.
SUPPRESSION, noun. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
SUPPRESSION ORDER, noun. A gag order.
SUPPRESSION ORDERS, noun. Plural of suppression order

Dictionary definition

SUPPRESSION, noun. The failure to develop some part or organ.
SUPPRESSION, noun. The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper".
SUPPRESSION, noun. Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent".
SUPPRESSION, noun. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires.

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.
Stephen King