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Impediment vs Repression - What's the difference?

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Impediment is a related term of repression.


As nouns the difference between impediment and repression

is that impediment is a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress while repression is repression.

impediment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=2 citation , passage=I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.}}
    Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta

    • Synonyms

    * hindrance * obstruction * obstacle * See also

    Related terms

    * (l)

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    repression

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
  • The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.