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English
Etymology
From repress + -ion.
Pronunciation
Noun
repression (countable and uncountable, plural repressions)
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited.
- The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
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Translations
act of repressing
- Arabic: قَمْع m (qamʕ), كَبْت m (kabt)
- Armenian: ռեպրեսիա (hy) (ṙepresia)
- Azerbaijani: repressiya, cəza (az)
- Belarusian: рэпрэ́сія f (représija), уці́ск m (ucísk), падаўле́нне n (padaŭljénnje)
- Bengali: দমন (bn) (domon)
- Bulgarian: репре́сия (bg) f (représija), спода́вяне (bg) n (spodávjane)
- Catalan: repressió (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 鎮壓／镇压 (zh) (zhènyā), 壓抑／压抑 (zh) (yāyì), 彈壓／弹压 (zh) (tányā)
- Czech: represe f, útisk m
- Dutch: repressie (nl) f, onderdrukking (nl) f
- Estonian: repressioon
- Finnish: tukahdutus (fi), tukahduttaminen (fi), pidättäminen (fi), alustus (fi), sorto (fi)
- French: répression (fr) f
- Galician: represión (gl)
- Georgian: რეპრესია (reṗresia), შევიწროება (ševic̣roeba)
- German: Repression (de) f, Unterdrückung (de) f
- Greek: καταστολή (el) f (katastolí)
- Hebrew: הַדחָקָה (he) f (hadkhaká)
- Hindi: दमन (hi) m (daman), दबाव (hi) m (dabāv)
- Hungarian: elfojtás (hu), elnyomás (hu)
- Italian: repressione (it) f
- Japanese: 鎮圧 (ja) (ちんあつ, chin'atsu), 抑圧 (ja) (よくあつ, yokuatsu), 弾圧 (ja) (だんあつ, dan'atsu)
- Kazakh: репрессия (repressiä), жаза (kk) (jaza), сүргін (sürgın)
- Korean: 진압(鎭壓) (ko) (jinap), 억압(抑壓) (ko) (eogap), 탄압(彈壓) (ko) (tanap)
- Kyrgyz: репрессия (repressiya), жазалоо (ky) (jazaloo)
- Latvian: represija f
- Lithuanian: represija f
- Macedonian: репресија f (represija)
- Persian: سرکوب (fa) (sarkub)
- Polish: represja (pl) f
- Portuguese: repressão (pt) f
- Romanian: represiune (ro) f
- Russian: репре́ссия (ru) f (représsija), подавле́ние (ru) n (podavlénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: mùchadh m, ceannsachadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: репрѐсија f
- Roman: reprèsija (sh) f
- Slovak: represia f
- Slovene: represija (sl) f
- Spanish: represión (es) f
- Swedish: förtryck (sv) n, repression (sv) c
- Tajik: ҷазо (jazo)
- Turkish: baskı (tr)
- Turkmen: repressiýa
- Ukrainian: репре́сія f (représija), приду́шення n (prydúšennja)
- Uyghur: باستۇرۇش (basturush)
- Uzbek: repressiya (uz), jazo (uz)
- Vietnamese: đàn áp (vi)
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involuntary rejection from consciousness
Anagrams
Swedish
Noun
repression c
- repression (act or state of being repressed)
- (psychology) repression
Declension
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