suppression
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /səˈpɹɛʃən/
suppression
- The act or instance of suppressing.
- 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
- The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
- 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:
- The state of being suppressed.
- A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
- (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.
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