suppression

Meaning

Noun

• The act or instance of suppressing.
• The state of being suppressed.
• A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
• A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

Origin

• From Latin suppressiō.