suppression
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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.
- 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
- The state of being suppressed.
- A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- (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
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Translations[edit]
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin suppressiō.
Noun[edit]
suppression f (plural suppressions)
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “suppression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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