repression — Английский словарь

Существительное

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   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.

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

Существительное

1. a state of forcible subjugation

   Более общие понятия

   subjugationsubjection

   Примеры

   the long repression of Christian sects

2. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

   Более общие понятия

   defense mechanismdefense reactiondefence mechanismdefence reactiondefensedefence

3. the act of repressing; control by holding down

   Более общие понятия

   control

   Примеры

   his goal was the repression of insolence