oppressiveness
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8.2
- noun
- /əˈprɛsɪvnəs/
:
opresividad
- The point of my post was more to point out that atheism and feminism can be natural allies in the fight to reduce the oppressiveness of religion.
They both have a kind of oppressiveness to them.
- They both have a kind of oppressiveness to them.
Examples
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The Gutage suffered more than other minority groups from the oppressiveness of the Showan institution of leba shay.
Academic text (1994) -
His topic isn't just the untrustworthiness of perception and perspective itself, but the oppressiveness of the maelstrom.
Academic text (2010) -
It's a special kind of oppressiveness we feel now.
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"His presence gave the evening it's quality of oppressiveness.
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Freedom from its oppressiveness was what I longed for.
Academic text (1994) -
The court's methodology highlights both the potential pitfalls inherent in the use of history by courts and the oppressiveness of history in this particular case.
Academic text (1994) -
But to mistake that explanation for a justification is to submit to the oppressiveness of the system and to take the easy way out by playing the victim.
Blog text (30) -
The white workers involved in this study tended to see their unpaid and volunteer work as a form of resistance to the oppressiveness of the current milieu.
Academic text (2008) -
This unwelcome attention and lack of normal street invisibility are intensified in their oppressiveness by the knowledge that most able-bodied people are incapable of looking much beyond the disabled body when encountering someone in a wheelchair, using a cane, or lacking a limb.
Academic text (1993) -
The oppressiveness of the summer heat made it hard to enjoy outdoor activities.
Synonyms
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5.5
A cruel use of power to control and hurt people
109
6.7
One person or a small group rules a country cruelly
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6.9
The act of making someone do something by using threats or violence
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7.2
Using power to stop people's actions and feelings
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6.4
Being very strict and harsh when judging or punishing people
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8.6
A system that keeps people under control and stops them being free
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4.1
Very severe or unkind treatment that causes harm
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8.4
People in charge limit others' freedom and choices, saying it is for their good
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7.2
The quality of being very strict in rules or discipline that allows little freedom
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8.0
A strong control that stops people or groups from acting freely
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3.4
Being very firm about rules and making people follow them
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7.0
Mean words or actions that hurt other people
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8.0
A situation where a government strongly limits people's freedom
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7.3
Limiting what people can do
The use of force or threats to make someone do something
Being overly controlling and not listening to others
Being too bossy and trying to control other people
Being very harsh and hard for people or things to endure
A strict attitude that limits what people can do
A quality that makes something difficult or causes extra work
A quality that makes pain or trouble very hard to stand
Antonyms
How Oppressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
oppressiveness = oppressive (transparent) = oppress + ive + ness
The noun is formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'oppressive', yielding the 'quality of being oppressive'.
Etymology
Oppressiveness comes from an old Latin idea of 'pressing down', and you can see the same root in press and pressure. So something that is oppressive or has oppressiveness feels heavy, unfair, or like it squeezes and limits you.