English Explanatory Dictionary

suppression

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act or instance of suppressing.
  2. The state of being suppressed.
  3. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
  4. The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
  5. A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

Pronunciation

/səˈpɹɛʃən/ en-us-suppression.ogg /səˈpɹeʃən/

Word forms

suppression suppressions

Etymology

From Latin suppressiō.

Related words

suppress repression

Derived words

angiosuppression cardiosuppression contrasuppression cosuppression fibrosuppression immunosuppression inflammosuppression lymphosuppression myelosuppression neurosuppression nonsuppression oncosuppression oversuppression postsuppressional presuppression radiosuppression resuppression supersuppression thrombosuppression suppressionism suppressionist hood suppression system phenotypic suppression space suppression suppression order voter suppression
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