repression
Pronúncias (2)
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/ɹəˈpɹɛʃən/
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[ɹəˈpɹɛʃn̩]
Substantivo
The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
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History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited.
The most powerful educative force in the new society was, however, the system of police repression.
The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
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Substantivo
a state of forcible subjugation
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the long repression of Christian sects
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
the act of repressing; control by holding down
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his goal was the repression of insolence
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repressions