Repression vs. Suppression
Repressionnoun
The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
Repressionnoun
The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
Repressionnoun
The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
Repressionnoun
That which represses; check; restraint.
Repressionnoun
a state of forcible subjugation;
Repressionnoun
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
Repressionnoun
the act of repressing; control by holding down;
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.
