suppression

English

Etymology

From Latin suppressiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈpɹɛʃən/

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Noun

suppression (countable and uncountable, plural suppressions)

1. 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.

2. The state of being suppressed.
3. (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
5. (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

• cardiosuppression
• cosuppression
• fibrosuppression
• immunosuppression
• inflammosuppression
• lymphosuppression
• myelosuppression
• neurosuppression
• nonsuppression
• oncosuppression
• oversuppression
• postsuppressional
• radiosuppression
• resuppression
• space suppression
• suppressionism
• suppressionist
• suppression order

 

Related terms

• suppress

Translations

the act or instance of suppressing

• Bulgarian: потискане (bg) (potiskane)
• Esperanto: subpremo
• German: Unterdrückung (de) f

• Greek: εξάλειψη (el) f (exáleipsi)
• Polish: tłumienie (pl) n, represja (pl) f

psychology

• German: Verdrängung (de) f

• Polish: represja (pl) f, wyparcie (pl) n

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} subpremo

• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} nedhållande, ^{(please verify)} undertryckande

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin suppressiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/, /sy.pʁe.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

suppression f (plural suppressions)

1. deletion
2. removal
3. cutting (of jobs)

Related terms

• supprimer
  • supprimable

Further reading

• “suppression”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.