Definition of: repression

(ri·presh′ən) noun
1. The act of repressing, or the condition of being repressed.
2. That which holds in check; a restraint.
3. Psychoanal. The exclusion from consciousness of painful, unpleasant, or unacceptable psychic material, as memories, desires, and impulses, which are thus compelled to manifest themselves through the unconcious.