repressiveness
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repressiveness — repressive ► ADJECTIVE ▪ inhibiting or restraining personal freedom; oppressive. DERIVATIVES repressively adverb repressiveness noun … English terms dictionary
repressiveness — noun ( es) : the quality or state of being repressive a repressiveness natural to the man G.D.Brown … Useful english dictionary
repressiveness — noun see repress … New Collegiate Dictionary
repressiveness — noun The state or condition of being repressive … Wiktionary
repressiveness — rɪ presɪvnɪs n. suppressive quality, restraining quality; subduing quality … English contemporary dictionary
repressiveness — re·pres·sive·ness … English syllables
repress — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French represser, from Latin repressus, past participle of reprimere to check, from re + premere to press more at press Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to check by or as if by pressure ; curb … New Collegiate Dictionary
Gulag — For other uses, see Gulag (disambiguation). The integrated map of the Gulag camps, which existed from 1923 to 1961, based on data from the Human Rights Society «Memorial» … Wikipedia
W. H. Auden — Infobox Person image size = 144 caption = U.S. Library of Congress birth date = #ifeq:yes|yes|2|2 21 1907 birth place = York, England death date = #ifeq:yes|yes|9|9 29 1973 (aged age at date | 1907 | 2 | 21 | 1973 | 9 | 29 ) death place = Vienna … Wikipedia
Permissive society — The permissive society is a label given to a society where social norms are becoming increasingly liberal. This usually accompanies a change in what is considered deviant. An extreme of permissiveness would be a society that has few moral codes… … Wikipedia
