suppression
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin suppressiō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
suppression (countable and uncountable, plural suppressions)
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
- 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.
- (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
- 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival[1], New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:
- 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.
- (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
Derived terms edit
- cardiosuppression
- cosuppression
- fibrosuppression
- immunosuppression
- inflammosuppression
- lymphosuppression
- myelosuppression
- neurosuppression
- nonsuppression
- oncosuppression
- oversuppression
- postsuppressional
- radiosuppression
- resuppression
- space suppression
- suppressionism
- suppressionist
- suppression order
- voter suppression
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Translations edit
the act or instance of suppressing
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French edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin suppressiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
suppression f (plural suppressions)
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Further reading edit
- “suppression”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.