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Definition of Repression

1. Noun. A state of forcible subjugation. "The long repression of Christian sects"

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

3. Noun. The act of repressing; control by holding down. "His goal was the repression of insolence"

Definition of Repression

1. n. The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.

Definition of Repression

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

2. Noun. The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repression

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Repression

1. The inhibition of a gene's expression, this is typically caused by the change in the activity of a regulatory protein. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repression

representers representing representment represents repress repressed represser repressers represses repressibility

repressible repressible enzyme repressilator repressilators repressing repression (current term) repression-sensitization repressionist repressions repressive

repressively repressiveness repressor repressor gene repressor protein repressor proteins repressors repressure repressured repressures

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