# suppression

> English word · Noun · IPA /səˈpɹɛʃən/ · frequency rank #11,617

## Definitions
1. The act or instance of suppressing.
2. The state of being suppressed.
3. A process in which a person consciously excludes anxiety-producing thoughts, feelings, or memories.
4. The entirety of acts aimed at stopping or preventing the enemy to execute such unwanted activities like firing, regrouping, observation or others.
5. A subconscious adaptation by a person's brain to eliminate the symptoms of disorders of binocular vision such as strabismus, convergence insufficiency and aniseikonia.

## Etymology
From Latin suppressiō.

## Easily confused with
- **suppressor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/suppression-vs-suppressor)
- **suppressing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/suppressing-vs-suppression)

## Common misspellings (14)
`spupression`, `ssuppression`, `supperssion`, `suppresion`, `suppresison`, `suppressino`, `suppressionn`, `suppressoin`, `supprestion`, `supprression`, `supprsesion`, `supression`, `suprpession`, `usppression`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/suppression