suppression

The act of suppressing.

The state of being suppressed.

Conscious exclusion of unacceptable desires, thoughts, or memories from the mind.

The failure of an organ or part to develop.

The inhibition of gene expression.

The act of suppressing, crushing, or quelling, or the state of being suppressed, crushed, quelled, or the like: as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult.

The act of concealing or withholding from utterance, disclosure, revelation, or publication: as, the suppression of truth, of evidence, or of reports.

The stoppage or obstruction or the morbid retention of discharges: as, the suppression of a diarrhea, of saliva, or of urine.

In botany, the absence, as in flowers, of parts requisite to theoretical completeness; abortion.

In psychology, a phenomenon of binocular vision, consisting in the exclusive predominance of a single monocular image and the consequent disappearance of the other.