Origin: Latin suffix -sion
Repression has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
"After years of repressing his fear of spiders, he finally broke down when one jumped out at him in the dark."
the act of repressing; control by holding down
"his goal was the repression of insolence"
The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
"The therapist explained that his constant irritability was a symptom of deep-seated repression from childhood trauma."