repression

1. 1.

   a state of forcible subjugation

   “the long repression of Christian sects”

   Broadersubjugation
2. 2.

   (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

   Broaderdefense mechanism

   psychiatry

3. 3.

   the act of repressing; control by holding down

   “his goal was the repression of insolence”

   Broadercontrol

Other forms of repression

plural

repressions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about repression

What does repression mean?

repression means "a state of forcible subjugation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in repression?

repression has 3 syllables: re-pres-sion. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /ɹiˈpɹɛʃən/.

Is repression a common word?

repression is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with repression?

6 words rhyme with repression. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.