Oppression vs. Suppression

Oppressionnoun

The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

Oppressionnoun

The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

Oppressionnoun

A feeling of being oppressed.

Oppressionnoun

The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.

Oppressionnoun

That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

Oppressionnoun

A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.

Oppressionnoun

Ravishment; rape.

Oppressionnoun

the act of subjugating by cruelty;

Oppressionnoun

the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:

Oppressionnoun

a feeling of being oppressed

Oppression

Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power, often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. Oppression may be overt or covert, depending on how it is practiced.

Suppressionnoun

The act or instance of suppressing.

Suppressionnoun

The state of being suppressed.

Suppressionnoun

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

Suppressionnoun

The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like.

Suppressionnoun

Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; - used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion.

Suppressionnoun

Omission; as, the suppression of a word.

Suppressionnoun

(botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant

Suppressionnoun

the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation;

Suppressionnoun

forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority;

Suppressionnoun

(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

Suppressionnoun

the action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication

Suppressionnoun

stoppage or reduction of a discharge or secretion.

Suppressionnoun

the absence or non-development of a part or organ that is normally present.

Suppressionnoun

the cancelling of the effect of one mutation by a second mutation.

Suppressionnoun

the restraint or repression of an idea, activity, or reaction by something more powerful.

Suppressionnoun

the conscious inhibition of unacceptable memories, impulses, or desires.

Suppressionnoun

prevention of electrical interference.