repression
Meaning of repression
noun
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited.
- The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
Information about repression
- It is a name.
- The plural form of repression is: repressions.
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Hyphenation of repression
re-pres-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- repression is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Translation of repression
- Spanish: represión
- French: répression
- Italian: repressione
- Portuguese: repressão
Words that rhyme with repression
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