'Repression' definitions:
Definition of 'repression'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state of forcible subjugation; "the long repression of Christian sects"
noun
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
noun
The act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
Definition of 'Repression'
From: GCIDE
- Repression \Re*pres"sion\ (r?-pr?sh"?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]pression.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which represses; check; restraint. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'repression'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aloofness,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- backwardness,
- bamboo curtain,
- ban,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bashfulness,
- blackout,
- blankness,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- censorship,
- check,
- chilliness,
- choking,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coldness,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- conversion,
- coolness,
- corking up,
- crackdown,
- cramp,
- crushing,
- curb,
- curtain,
- defense mechanism,
- delay,
- denial,
- detachment,
- detainment,
- detention,
- deterring,
- disallowance,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- distance,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- embargo,
- exclusion,
- expressionlessness,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- frustrating,
- frustration,
- guardedness,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- hush-up,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impediment,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- introversion,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- keeping,
- law,
- let,
- limitation,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- mental block,
- modesty,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- oath of secrecy,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- official secrecy,
- opposition,
- pall,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- psychological block,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- remoteness,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- ruling out,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- setback,
- smashing,
- smothering,
- squashing,
- squeeze,
- squelching,
- standoffishness,
- statute,
- stifling,
- stranglehold,
- strangling,
- stricture,
- subdual,
- subduedness,
- subjugation,
- sublimation,
- suffocating,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppression,
- symbolization,
- taboo,
- tenacity,
- throttling,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- Volstead Act,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- wraps,
- zoning,
- zoning laws