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. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. (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

• Polish: tłumienie (pl) n

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• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} subpremo

• Swedish: nedhållande, undertryckande

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin suppressiō.

Noun

suppression f (plural suppressions)

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

See also

• supprimer

Further reading

• “suppression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).