单词 | repressiveness |
释义 | > as lemmasreˈpressiveness reˈpressiveness n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > suppression or repression > quality of being repressive repressiveness1849 1849 A. Helps Friends in Council II. 146 This care for self-preservation on the part of government, may seem to be a selfish thing and likely to lead to mere repressiveness and inactivity. 1957 G. L. Watson A. E. Housman vi. 120 That repressiveness in sexual matters which condemned him to bear in guilty self-reproach the stigma of a ‘nameless and abominable’ something. 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 28/1 I am constantly being reminded today of the cultural repressiveness of 1950s McCarthyism. < as lemmas |
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