suppression

From Latin suppressiō.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /səˈpɹɛʃən/

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /səˈpɹeʃən/

suppression (countable and uncountable, plural suppressions)

1. The act or instance of suppressing.
   • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:

     The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

2. The state of being suppressed.
3. (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
   • 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival‎^[1], New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:

     In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.

5. (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

• suppress

• repression

Learned borrowing from Latin suppressiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /sy.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ ~ /sy.pʁe.sjɔ̃/

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suppression f (plural suppressions)

1. deletion
2. removal
3. cutting (of jobs)

• supprimer
  • supprimable

• “suppression”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.