repression
英[rɪ'preʃən]
美[rɪ'prɛʃən]
英英释意
- 1. a state of forcible subjugation;
- "the long repression of Christian sects"
- 2. (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
- 3. the act of repressing; control by holding down;
- "his goal was the repression of insolence"