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Definition of: suppression
(sə·presh′ən) noun
1. The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed.
2. Psychoanal. The deliberate exclusion from consciousness and action of ideas, memories, or emotions, especially those regarded as unpleasant or as socially unacceptable.
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