Definition for Repression:

• the act of repressing; control by holding down; " his goal was the repression of insolence"

Synonyms for Repression:

• n.

  •
  • occupy,
  • conquer,
  • subjugate,
  • invade,
  • besiege,
  • storm,
  • suppress,
  • annex,
  • seize,
  • subdue.
  •
  • win,
  • controlled,
  • unemotional,
  • neutral,
  • emotionless,
  • restrained,
  • undemonstrative,
  • impassive,
  • blank,
  • passive,
  • unresponsive,
  • continue.
  •act (noun)
  • repression.
  •complex (noun)
  • hang up,
  • hangup,
  • a thing about something,
  • fixed idea,
  • exaggerated reaction,
  • obsession.
  •confinement (noun)
  • constrainments,
  • de limitation,
  • de limitations,
  • de-limitations,
  • de-limitation,
  • immurations,
  • boundings.
  •constraint (noun)
  • suppression,
  • oppression,
  • control.
  •defense mechanism (noun)
  • defense reaction,
  • symbolization,
  • sublimation,
  • sublimations.
  •domination (noun)
  • pre-potences,
  • pre potence,
  • sub ordination,
  • pre-potencies,
  • sub ordinations,
  • pre potency,
  • pre potences,
  • sub-ordination,
  • pre-potence,
  • pre-potency,
  • prepotences,
  • sub-ordinations,
  • pre potencies.
  •forgetfulness (noun)
  • dreaminess,
  • laxness,
  • absentmindedness,
  • fugue,
  • short memory,
  • loss of memory,
  • paramnesia,
  • blockout,
  • lapse of memory,
  • fugues,
  • hypomnesia.
  •opposition (noun)
  • defiance,
  • friction,
  • opposition,
  • impediment,
  • counterattack,
  • hindrance,
  • fight,
  • conflict,
  • rebuff,
  • resistance,
  • repulsion,
  • counteraction,
  • protest,
  • challenge,
  • adversary,
  • confrontation,
  • obstinacy,
  • obstruction,
  • objection,
  • interference,
  • dispute,
  • antagonism,
  • contradiction,
  • disagreement.
  •reserve (noun)
  • self restraint,
  • re-serve,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • re-serves,
  • re serves,
  • un responsiveness,
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • re serve,
  • selfrestraint,
  • un responsivenesses.
  •restraint (noun)
  • self-discipline,
  • self-government,
  • straitjacket,
  • straitjackets,
  • pinions,
  • withholdings,
  • pinion.
  •self-control (noun)
  • strength of character,
  • selfcontrol,
  • self-constraint.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un communicativeness,
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un-communicativenesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • limitation,
  • crackdown.
  •
  • restraint,
  • pressure.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abuse,
  • Squashing,
  • prohibition,
  • anguish,
  • discreetness,
  • unapproachability,
  • interdiction,
  • coldness,
  • moderation,
  • tenacity,
  • veil of secrecy,
  • Prohibiting,
  • cutting off,
  • blockade,
  • controlling,
  • nuisance value,
  • frustration,
  • Retainment,
  • Ceasing,
  • obstructionism,
  • interruption,
  • resignation,
  • passion,
  • impassiveness,
  • introversion,
  • security,
  • constriction,
  • halt,
  • censoring,
  • smothering,
  • forbearance,
  • Interdicting,
  • holding,
  • enslavement,
  • endurance,
  • inaccessibility,
  • Suppressing,
  • forbiddance,
  • backwardness,
  • cessation,
  • distance,
  • despotism,
  • iciness,
  • closure,
  • blockage,
  • totalitarianism,
  • pain,
  • bottling up,
  • halting,
  • index,
  • setback,
  • Arrestment,
  • putting down,
  • uncongeniality,
  • blankness,
  • holdup,
  • withdrawal,
  • coolness,
  • continence,
  • subjugation,
  • suffocating,
  • fixation,
  • hiding,
  • Restraining,
  • Muting,
  • iron curtain,
  • preclusion,
  • forbidding,
  • keeping,
  • stop,
  • blocking,
  • censorship,
  • law,
  • longanimity,
  • put-down,
  • standoffishness,
  • self-restraint,
  • Retardment,
  • quenching,
  • Quieting,
  • discipline,
  • retention,
  • frostiness,
  • subordination,
  • restriction,
  • choking,
  • cut-off,
  • curb,
  • Supportance,
  • tyranny,
  • concealment,
  • interdict,
  • preservation,
  • holding in,
  • sensationalism,
  • throttling,
  • feeling,
  • stranglehold,
  • reservedness,
  • negativism,
  • PROHIBITORY INJUNCTION,
  • subduedness,
  • ending,
  • impassivity,
  • proscription,
  • thrill,
  • surcease,
  • locking in,
  • occlusion,
  • maintenance,
  • Squelching,
  • refusal,
  • damper,
  • injury,
  • detachment,
  • concealing,
  • Checking,
  • Enthralment,
  • squeeze,
  • stopping,
  • withdrawnness,
  • mental block,
  • conversion,
  • autocracy,
  • undemonstrativeness,
  • fortitude,
  • ban,
  • taboo,
  • retirement,
  • arrest,
  • retardation,
  • frigidity,
  • hardship,
  • termination,
  • subjection,
  • remoteness,
  • self-command,
  • Quashing,
  • corking up,
  • injustice,
  • stifling,
  • Discontinuing,
  • hindering,
  • Subduing,
  • maltreatment,
  • discretion,
  • extinguishing,
  • psychological block,
  • seal of secrecy,
  • Muffling,
  • Reticency,
  • Clogging,
  • contraband,
  • absolutism,
  • deter,
  • discontinuation,
  • Detainment,
  • end,
  • chilliness,
  • crack down,
  • Silencing,
  • monocracy,
  • denial,
  • torture,
  • check,
  • bamboo curtain,
  • tabu,
  • repressing,
  • torment,
  • persecution,
  • curtain,
  • coercion,
  • autarchy,
  • Index Expurgatorius,
  • foot-dragging,
  • prehension,
  • bridle,
  • repressions,
  • wraps,
  • compulsion,
  • sumptuary laws,
  • cracking down on,
  • delay,
  • anger,
  • Refrainment,
  • frustrating,
  • hush up,
  • modesty,
  • sufferance,
  • blackout,
  • smashing,
  • Precluding,
  • Holdback,
  • ruling out,
  • Preventing,
  • Impersonality,
  • Hampering,
  • dictatorship,
  • Cohibition,
  • prevention,
  • Terminating,
  • elimination,
  • stricture,
  • aloofness,
  • limit,
  • casus belli,
  • forbidden fruit,
  • block,
  • closing up,
  • cramp,
  • pall,
  • force,
  • detention,
  • extinction,
  • bashfulness,
  • quelling,
  • let,
  • withholding,
  • crushing,
  • Obstructing,
  • yellow journalism,
  • withhold,
  • exclusion,
  • strangling,
  • injunction,
  • retentivity,
  • Arrestation,
  • zoning,
  • statute,
  • index librorum prohibitorum,
  • Deterring,
  • submission,
  • Disallowance,
  • repress,
  • rejection,
  • veil,
  • retentiveness,
  • reticence,
  • irritation,
  • Subdual,
  • embargo,
  • guardedness,
  • barrier of secrecy,
  • Extinguishment.

Paraphrases for Repression:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    subjugation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    coercion, retaliation, criminalization, retribution, criminalisation, law-enforcement, harassment, deterrence, proscription, suffocation, eradication.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    suppression, crackdown.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    oppression, persecution, suppression, clampdown, tyranny, penalization, pressure, crackdown, aggression, brutality, reprisal, trampling.

Antonyms for Repression:

• n.

  • constraint
    liberty, freedom.
  • stopping
    allowance, permission, help, assistance, liberation, aid.
  • Other antonyms:
    candor, gratification, bluntness, frankness, unrestrainedness, Immoderacy, incontinence, overindulgence, self-indulgence, indulgence, intemperance.

Repression Sentence Examples:

• Germany again experienced, as it had in 1819, that the federal institutions which were to have given it unity existed only for the purposes of repression.

• Catherine, hemmed in on all sides by their courtiers, received, not only day by day but from hour to hour, terrible blows to her pride and her self - love; for the Guises were determined to treat her on the same system of repression which the late king, her husband, had so long pursued.

Homophones for Repression:

• refreshen, river gum, reversion, repercussion, River Cam.

Hyponym for Repression:

• n.

  • act
    control.
  • process
    Defence Mechanism, defense reaction, defense, Defence Reaction, defense mechanism, defence.
  • state
    subjugation, subjection.