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Restrictive vs Suppression - What's the difference?

restrictive | suppression |

As an adjective restrictive

is confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

As a noun suppression is

the act or instance of suppressing.

restrictive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.

    • 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.