repression

See also: répression

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wre-

Latin re-

Old French re-bor.

Middle English re-

English re-

English press

English repress

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English repression

From repress + -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈpɹɛʃən/, [ɹəˈpɹɛʃn̩]

  • Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: re‧pres‧sion

Noun

repression (countable and uncountable, plural repressions)

1. The act of repressing; state of being repressed.

   History shows that when governments fear the truth and increase repression, their days are limited.

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish):

     The most powerful educative force in the new society was, however, the system of police repression.

2. (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.

Derived terms

• antirepression
• autorepression
• corepression
• crossrepression
• derepression
• financial repression
• hyperrepression
• nonrepression
• overrepression
• repressionary
• repressionism
• repressionist
• transnational repression
• transrepression

Related terms

• repress

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 (padawljénnje)
• 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)
• Indonesian: represi (id)
• 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 (repressıya), жаза (kk) (jaza), сүргін (sürgin)
• 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

  Latin: 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)

psychology: involuntary rejection from consciousness

• Bulgarian: поти́скане (bg) n (potískane)
• Catalan: repressió (ca) f
• Dutch: verdringing (nl) f,
• Finnish: torjunta (fi), repressio
• Georgian: შეკავება (šeḳaveba)
• German: Verdrängung (de) f
• Hungarian: elfojtás (hu)
• Polish: represja (pl) f
• Russian: подавле́ние (ru) n (podavlénije)
• Spanish: represión (es) f
• Swedish: förträngning (sv) c, repression (sv) c

See also

• suppression

Anagrams

• erpornises, respersion

Swedish

Noun

repression c

1. repression (act or state of being repressed)
2. (psychology) repression

Declension

Declension of repression

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	repression	repressions
	definite	repressionen	repressionens
plural	indefinite	repressioner	repressioners
	definite	repressionerna	repressionernas

Related terms

• repressiv

See also

• förtrycka
• förträngning
• undertrycka

References

• “repression”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “repression”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “repression”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)