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repressions

repressions is the plural of repression.

Meaning of repression

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

Phrases with repressions

Questions about repressions

What is repressions the plural of?
Repressions is the plural of repression.

Words near repressions in the dictionary

  1. repressional
  2. repressionary
  3. repressionism
  4. repressionist
  5. repressionists
  6. repressions
  7. repressive
  8. repressively
  9. repressiveness
  10. repressivism
  11. repressment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repressions (page history and authors); repression (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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