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Repression vs Suppressing - What's the difference?

repression | suppressing |

As nouns the difference between repression and suppressing

is that repression is repression while suppressing is the act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.

As a verb suppressing is

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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.

    • suppressing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
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    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is suppressed; a suppression.