suppression

1 (botany) the failure to develop of some part or organ of a plant

2 the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: curtailment]

3 forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: crushing, quelling, stifling]

4 (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires [syn: inhibition]

English

Pronunciation

Noun

1. The act or instance of suppressing.
2. The state of being suppressed.

Related terms

• suppress

The term Suppression may refer to:

• Oppression
• Censorship
• Voter suppression
• Cultural suppression
• Suppression of religion
• Political suppression
• Thought suppression, the process of deliberately trying to stop thinking about certain thoughts

Weapons

• Suppressor
• Suppressive fire

Math, science, and technology

• Compton suppression, in nuclear physics
• Free energy suppression and other suppressed technology
• Silence suppression, in telephony
• Suppression subtractive hybridization, in biochemistry
• Transient voltage suppression diode
• Zero suppression, in math and information theory

Health and medicine

• Appetite suppression
• Bone marrow suppression
• Suppression (eye)
• Flash suppression
• Reflux suppressant, in medicine

Other

• Fire fighting ("fire suppression")
• Fire suppression systems
• Suppressed correlative, a logical fallacy
• Suppression of the Society of Jesus
• Tohunga Suppression Act 1907
• Suppression of Communism Act
• Suppressive Person and the book, The Cause of Suppression, about the Church of Scientology concept

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