Repressive vs Excessive - What's the difference?
repressive | excessive | Related terms |
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
* 1846 Allan Freer - The North British Review
* 1989 Louis Henkin - Right V. Might
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
Repressive is a related term of excessive.
As adjectives the difference between repressive and excessive
is that repressive is while excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.repressive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Human law is indeed repressive', but ' repressive on moral principles comprehensively applied to the whole community, and commanding the approval of the moral sense of the governed
- First, the classical rule forbids any unilateral right to use force to overthrow a regime on the sole grounds that it is repressive in character.
excessive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."
