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Oppression vs Marginalize - What's the difference?

oppression | marginalize |

As a noun oppression

is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

As a verb marginalize is

to relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit.

oppression

English

Noun

  • The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.
  • * (Sir Walter Raleigh)
  • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions , imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings
  • The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.
  • A feeling of being oppressed.
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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}

    marginalize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * marginalise (mostly British)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit
  • Synonyms

    *invisibilize