suppression
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6.3
- noun
- /səˈprɛʃən/
- Specialized
:
supresión
- The suppression of unwanted thoughts can sometimes provide temporary relief but may not address the underlying issues.
- emotional suppression
- suppression of traumatic memory
- suppression and repression
Namely the suppression of my own being went down.
- Namely the suppression of my own being went down.
- It also could be the suppression of memory by my own system to protect me, right?
- And so often times suppression suppression gets wrapped in love.
- Everybody's got shit, Everybody's trying to prove which person's suppression or shit story is worse.
- When I was a monk, I didn't have either of those things, But that was more of a suppression.
- You'll go from ignorance to don't worry to fear, to anxiety, suppression, depression, disease, disintegration go over on the other side.
Examples
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It also could be the suppression of memory by my own system to protect me, right?
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In the long term, this suppression of emotions may result in certain psychosomatic changes in the body.
Academic text (2000) -
The unfortunate result is often a suppression of symptoms rather than any real cure.
Academic text (1991) -
The expected social image of niceness and the good person requires the suppression of shadow issues.
Academic text (1999) -
Like that's connected to emotional suppression and not releasing your emotions.
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Clearly, the failure to attend to the critical stimuli can be associated with the suppression of erectile responses.
Academic text (1991) -
And she (the plaintiff) was being subjected continuously to that type of suppression of her old belief system.
Academic text (1995) -
I was raised to believe that discipline and self-control were signs of maturity, necessitating the suppression of individual desires.
Fiction book (1994) -
We have seen some suppression in children who took long-term inhalational steroids for allergic rhinitis or asthma.
Academic text (2003) -
His therapist suggested that the suppression of negative feelings could lead to greater emotional well-being.
Synonyms
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6.1
Holding back your feelings or actions around other people
A way of reducing strong emotional or physical reactions to feel calmer
Antonyms
How Suppressed
- Specialized
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7.1
- Specialized
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6.3
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2.8
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3.7
- US
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4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Suppression comes from the Latin parts sup- 'under' and press 'to push', which makes a simple image: 'pressing down' a thought; this is why in psychology suppression means choosing to keep a feeling or idea out of your awareness.