[noun] [U] The political repression (= extreme control) in this country is enforced by terror.Repression is also the process and effect of keeping particular thoughts and desires out of your conscious mind in order to defend or protect it.She attacked what she saw as an attitude of unhealthy sexual repression in the school.
REPRESSION
Meaning of REPRESSION in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012