REPRESSION
\ɹɪpɹˈɛʃən], \ɹɪpɹˈɛʃən], \ɹ_ɪ_p_ɹ_ˈɛ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of REPRESSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
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(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
By Princeton University
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the act of repressing; control by holding down; "his goal was the repression of insolence"
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(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
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That which represses; check; restraint.
By Oddity Software
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The act of repressing, or state of being repressed; as, the repression of evil and evil doers.
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That which represses; check; restraint.
By Noah Webster.
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The active mental process of keeping out and ejecting, banishing from consciousness, ideas or impulses that are unacceptable to it.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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