Repression

noun

Word Frequency: 6.3

Definitions

1.nounThe act of repressing; state of being repressed.

"History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited."

2.nounThe involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.

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