repression

noun

1. the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
2. Psychoanalysis. the rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.

noun

1. the act or process of repressing or the condition of being repressed
2. psychoanal the subconscious rejection of thoughts and impulses that conflict with conventional standards of conductSee suppression (def. 2)

n.

late 14c., noun of action from repress (v.), or else from Medieval Latin repressionem (nominative repressio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin reprimere. Psychological sense is from 1908; biochemical sense is from 1957.

n.

1. The act of repressing or the state of being repressed.
2. The unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious mind.