suppression

Meaning of suppression

noun
  1. The act or instance of suppressing.
  2. The state of being suppressed.
  3. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
  4. (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.

Information about suppression

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of suppression is: suppressions.
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Hyphenation of suppression

sup-pres-sion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • suppression is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

suppression synonyms

Meaning curtailment:

curtailment

Meaning crushing:

crushing, quelling, stifling

Meaning inhibition:

inhibition

Words that rhyme with suppression

Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion

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