sup pressionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /səˈpɹɛʃən/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /səˈpɹeʃən/

名詞

suppression (countable and uncountable, plural suppressions)

1. The act or instance of suppressing.
   • 1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos:

     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.

2. The state of being suppressed.
3. (psychology) A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. (military) The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
   • 1971, Dick Wilson, “Home and Dry in Shensi”, in The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival‎, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 230:

     In these circumstances the Communist guerrillas had survived Kuomintang suppression and in the autumn of 1931 they had launched a rising in the Huanglung Mountains of north Shensi.

5. (of an eye) A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

派生語

関連する語

• suppress

参考

• repression