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Exclusion vs Suppression - What's the difference?

exclusion | suppression |

As nouns the difference between exclusion and suppression

is that exclusion is exclusion while suppression is the act or instance of suppressing.

exclusion

English

Noun

  • The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • (obsolete) The act of pushing or forcing something out.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.6:
    • For the exclusion of animals is not merely passive like that of eggs, nor the total action of delivery to be imputed unto the mother, but the first attempt beginneth from the infant [...].
  • An item not covered by an insurance policy.

    • Antonyms

    * inclusion

    Derived terms

    * exclusion chromatography * exclusion zone * Pauli exclusion principle

    Related terms

    * exclude * exclusive

    suppression

    English

    Noun

  • The act or instance of suppressing.
  • * 1980 , :
    • 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.
  • The state of being suppressed.
  • A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.