Suppression

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  • noun. The act of suppressing.
  • noun. The state of being suppressed.
  • noun. Conscious exclusion of unacceptable desires, thoughts, or memories from the mind.
  • noun. The failure of an organ or part to develop.
  • noun. The inhibition of gene expression.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of suppressing, crushing, or quelling, or the state of being suppressed, crushed, quelled, or the like: as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult.
  • noun. The act of concealing or withholding from utterance, disclosure, revelation, or publication: as, the suppression of truth, of evidence, or of reports.
  • noun. The stoppage or obstruction or the morbid retention of discharges: as, the suppression of a diarrhea, of saliva, or of urine.
  • noun. In botany, the absence, as in flowers, of parts requisite to theoretical completeness; abortion.
  • noun. In psychology, a phenomenon of binocular vision, consisting in the exclusive predominance of a single monocular image and the consequent disappearance of the other.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression
  • noun. Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion.
  • noun. Omission.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act or instance of suppressing.
  • noun. The state of being suppressed.
  • noun. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
  • noun. the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
  • noun. (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires
  • noun. the failure to develop some part or organ
  • Word Usage
    "But as he seems to think that what he terms the suppression of the objections ought not to have been made “silently,” I now break that silence, and state exactly what it is that I suppressed, and why."
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