suppression

English

Etymology

From Latin suppressiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈpɹɛʃən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

suppression (countable and uncountable, plural suppressions)

1. The act or instance of suppressing.
   • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:

     The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

2. The state of being suppressed.
3. (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
   • 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival‎^[1], New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:

     In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.

5. (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

Derived terms

Prefixed forms

• cardiosuppression
• cosuppression
• fibrosuppression
• immunosuppression
• inflammosuppression
• lymphosuppression
• myelosuppression
• neurosuppression
• nonsuppression
• oncosuppression
• oversuppression
• postsuppressional
• radiosuppression
• resuppression

 

Suffixed forms

• suppressionism
• suppressionist

 

Compound words

• space suppression
• suppression order
• voter suppression

 

Related terms

• suppress

Translations

the act or instance of suppressing

• Bulgarian: потискане (bg) (potiskane)
• Esperanto: subpremo
• German: Unterdrückung (de) f
• Greek: εξάλειψη (el) f (exáleipsi)
• Hungarian: elnyomás (hu), elfojtás (hu), eltussolás (hu), elhallgatás (hu), elhallgattatás (hu), visszafojtás (hu), visszatartás (hu), eltitkolás (hu)
• Polish: tłumienie (pl) n, represja (pl) f

psychology

• German: Verdrängung (de) f
• Polish: represja (pl) f, wyparcie (pl) n

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} subpremo
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} nedhållande, ^{(please verify)} undertryckande

See also

• repression

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin suppressiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /sy.pʁe.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

suppression f (plural suppressions)

1. deletion
2. removal
3. cutting (of jobs)

Related terms

• supprimer
  • supprimable

Further reading

• “suppression”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.