repressiveness
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- noun
- /rɪˈprɛsɪvnəs/
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represividad
- When donor countries and international financial institutions became impatient with the Moi regime's political repressiveness, they made further development assistance conditional upon the holding of multiparty elections.
Examples
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The citizens protested against the repressiveness of the government's strict laws limiting their freedom of expression.
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Religion is being used as the moral justification for the immorality and repressiveness of those upper classes.
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By requiring repressiveness from the state in order to control things, the true nature of the power relationship is revealed, and the reaction to this control can be much more severe and radical.
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The repressiveness of Muslim/Arab governments is well-known to the Muslims and Arabs who live there.
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Arts advocates and researchers who employ those tactics behave precisely like the politicians whom they most disdain for their closed-mindedness, repressiveness, and opportunism.
Academic text (2001) -
Societies harbor varying degrees of flexibility, resourcefulness, and regenerative freedom, as well as subtle and brutal repressiveness and abuse of concentrated institutional power.
Academic text (2006) -
This period has witnessed the political awakening of middle-class professionals, intellectuals, and workers seeking an alternative to co-option by the Chinese government and has seen their disillusionment with London's modest approach to reform and with China's repressiveness.
Academic text (1990) -
Many historians examine the repressiveness that characterized the authoritarian regime during that era.
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Activists are working to combat the repressiveness that stifles dissent in many societies around the world.
Synonyms
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A cruel use of power to control and hurt people
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One person or a small group rules a country cruelly
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7.2
Using power to stop people's actions and feelings
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A system that keeps people under control and stops them being free
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Many rules that make doing things harder than necessary
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A strong, heavy feeling that makes people feel trapped or uncomfortable
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Limiting what people can do
The use of force or threats to make someone do something
Too much control that stops people from doing things on their own
Antonyms
How Repressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
repressiveness = repressive (transparent) = repress + ive + ness
This is a standard noun formation from the adjective 'repressive' meaning the quality or state of being repressive.
Etymology
Repressiveness comes from Latin parts re- 'back' and press 'to press', like the common word pressure. So it is the quality of 'pressing back' people or actions, which is why it means strict control or a limit on freedom.