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Repressiveness vs Oppression - What's the difference?

repressiveness | oppression |

As nouns the difference between repressiveness and oppression

is that repressiveness is the state or condition of being repressive while oppression is the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

repressiveness

English

Noun

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  • The state or condition of being repressive.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 11, author=Dan Bilefsky, title=Spain Says Adiós Siesta and Hola Viagra, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Sociologists say that an increased willingness to address sexual problems reflects Spain’s sexual liberation after the repressiveness of the Franco years. }}

    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.}}

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    * oppress

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