suppression.
The act or instance of suppressing.
Meaning & usage
The act or instance of suppressing.
The state of being suppressed.
A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *per-? Proto-Indo-European *pres-der. Proto-Italic *pres- Latin premō Latin supprimō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin suppressiōbor. English suppression Borrowed from Latin suppressiō.
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