'Suppression' definitions:
Definition of 'suppression'
(from WordNet)
noun
The failure to develop some part or organ
noun
The act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: suppression, curtailment]
noun
Forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling]
noun
(psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires [syn: inhibition, suppression]
Definition of 'Suppression'
From: GCIDE
- Suppression \Sup*pres"sion\, n. [L. suppressio: cf. F. suppression.]
- 1. The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of truth, of reports, of evidence, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) Complete stoppage of a natural secretion or excretion; as, suppression of urine; -- used in contradiction to retention, which signifies that the secretion or excretion is retained without expulsion. --Quain. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Gram.) Omission; as, the suppression of a word. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Overthrow; destruction; concealment; repression; detention; retention; obstruction. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'suppression'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- aloofness,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- backwardness,
- bamboo curtain,
- ban,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bashfulness,
- blackout,
- blankness,
- block,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- bottling up,
- breaking,
- ceasing,
- censoring,
- censorship,
- cessation,
- check,
- checking,
- chilliness,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- coldness,
- concealing,
- concealment,
- conquering,
- constraint,
- constriction,
- contraband,
- control,
- controlling,
- conversion,
- coolness,
- corking up,
- crackdown,
- cramp,
- crushing,
- curtain,
- defense mechanism,
- delay,
- denial,
- deracination,
- detachment,
- detainment,
- detention,
- disallowance,
- discontinuation,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- distance,
- domestication,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- elimination,
- embargo,
- end,
- ending,
- eradication,
- exclusion,
- expressionlessness,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- fixation,
- foot-dragging,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- gentling,
- guardedness,
- halt,
- halting,
- hampering,
- hiding,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holding,
- holding in,
- holdup,
- humbling,
- humiliation,
- hush-up,
- iciness,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impediment,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdict,
- interdicting,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- interference,
- interruption,
- introversion,
- iron curtain,
- ironbound security,
- keeping,
- law,
- let,
- liquidation,
- locking in,
- maintenance,
- mental block,
- modesty,
- negation,
- negativism,
- no-no,
- nuisance value,
- nullification,
- oath of secrecy,
- obstructing,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- official secrecy,
- opposition,
- pall,
- precluding,
- preclusion,
- prehension,
- preservation,
- prevention,
- prohibiting,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscription,
- psychological block,
- purge,
- put-down,
- putting down,
- quashing,
- quelling,
- quenching,
- quieting,
- reduction,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- remoteness,
- repression,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resistance,
- restraining,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- restrictive covenants,
- retainment,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retention,
- retentiveness,
- retentivity,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retirement,
- rooting out,
- ruling out,
- seal of secrecy,
- security,
- setback,
- silencing,
- smashing,
- smothering,
- snuffing out,
- squashing,
- squeeze,
- squelching,
- standoffishness,
- statute,
- stifling,
- stop,
- stopping,
- stranglehold,
- strangling,
- strangulation,
- stricture,
- subdual,
- subduedness,
- subduing,
- sublimation,
- suffocating,
- suffocation,
- sumptuary laws,
- surcease,
- symbolization,
- taboo,
- taming,
- tenacity,
- terminating,
- termination,
- throttling,
- treading down,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- unexpansiveness,
- uprooting,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- voiding,
- Volstead Act,
- withdrawal,
- withdrawnness,
- withholding,
- wraps,
- zoning,
- zoning laws