suppression

Nouns

  • (n) the failure to develop some part or organ
  • (n) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
    • a suppression of the newspaper
    curtailment,
  • (n) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority
    • the suppression of heresy
    • the quelling of the rebellion
    • the stifling of all dissent
    crushing, quelling, stifling,
  • (n) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires inhibition,

Synonyms

curtailment crushing quelling stifling inhibition

Words of close approximity

suppressive