repression

repression
Synonyms and related words:
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, aloofness, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, backwardness, bamboo curtain, ban, barrier of secrecy, bashfulness, blackout, blankness, block, blockage, blocking, bottling up, censorship, check, chilliness, choking, clogging, closing up, closure, coldness, constraint, constriction, contraband, control, conversion, coolness, corking up, crackdown, cramp, crushing, curb, curtain, defense mechanism, delay, denial, detachment, detainment, detention, deterring, disallowance, discreetness, discretion, distance, embargo, exclusion, expressionlessness, extinction, extinguishment, fixation, foot-dragging, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, frigidity, frostiness, frustrating, frustration, guardedness, hampering, hindering, hindrance, holdback, holding, holding in, holdup, hush-up, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impediment, impersonality, inaccessibility, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, interference, interruption, introversion, iron curtain, ironbound security, keeping, law, let, limitation, locking in, maintenance, mental block, modesty, negativism, no-no, nuisance value, oath of secrecy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, official secrecy, opposition, pall, preclusion, prehension, preservation, prevention, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, psychological block, putting down, quashing, quelling, quenching, refusal, rejection, remoteness, reserve, reservedness, resistance, restraint, restriction, restrictive covenants, retainment, retardation, retardment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, reticence, reticency, retirement, ruling out, seal of secrecy, security, setback, smashing, smothering, squashing, squeeze, squelching, standoffishness, statute, stifling, stranglehold, strangling, stricture, subdual, subduedness, subjugation, sublimation, suffocating, sumptuary laws, suppression, symbolization, taboo, tenacity, throttling, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, veil, veil of secrecy, withdrawal, withdrawnness, wraps, zoning, zoning laws

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  • RÉPRESSION — Durkheim évoque l’hypothèse où serait réalisée la transparence sociale intégrale, une société monacale par exemple. Il se demande à quel principe un tel groupement pourrait devoir sa cohésion et son maintien. Il n’hésite guère: une société ne… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Repression — Répression Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Repression — may refer to:* Memory inhibition, a critical component of an effective memory system * Political repression, the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons * Psychological repression, the psychological act of… …   Wikipedia

  • Repression — (lat.: re „zurück“, „wieder“; primere „drängen“, „drücken“) ist ein Synonym für Unterdrückung, Hemmung, Zurückdrängung. Je nach Kontext kann auch gemeint sein: die südamerikanischen Militärdiktaturen in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren (span. La… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Repression — Re*pres sion (r? pr?sh ?n), n. [Cf. F. r[ e]pression.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers. [1913 Webster] 2. That which represses; check; restraint. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • repression — repression. См. репрессия. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • Repression — (lat.), Zurückdrängung, Hemmung, Unterdrückung; Bestrafung begangener im Gegensatz zur Verhütung (Prävention) zu begehender Verbrechen. Repressivsystem (Gegensatz zur Präventivzensur), s. Presse, S. 285 …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Repression — Repressiōn (lat.), Unterdrückung, Hemmung; repressīv, hemmend, hindernd: Repressīvmaßregeln, von der Regierung zur Abwehr staatsgefährlicher Bestrebungen oder sonstiger Übelstände erlassene Maßregeln …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • repression — index censorship, coercion, constraint (restriction), control (restriction), deterrence, deterrent …   Law dictionary

  • repression — (n.) late 14c., noun of action from REPRESS (Cf. repress) (v.). Psychological sense is from 1908; biochemical sense is from 1957 …   Etymology dictionary

  • repression — [ri presh′ən] n. [ME repressioun < ML repressio] 1. a repressing or being repressed 2. Psychiatry a) the mechanism by which ideas, impulses, etc. are repressed b) something repressed in this way …   English World dictionary

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